Axios: “People in the D.C. region can take advantage of a federal program called Test to Treat, which partners with pharmacies to fill Paxlovid prescriptions for free.

• Test to Treat allows people to get a COVID-19 test, receive a prescription and have it filled, all in one location.
• This map lists pharmacies across the region participating in the program that received Paxlovid in the last two months and/or have reported availability in the last two weeks.
• DC Health says there is a sufficient supply of the drug that residents can access with a prescription at any Test to Treat location or one of 65+ pharmacies with the drug.
• Maryland’s health department tells Axios it has an adequate supply and that it has ensured that community health centers and pharmacies that serve nursing homes, in particular, have the drug.
• Brooke Rossheim, a public health specialist with the Virginia Department of Health, also says the state’s Paxlovid supply is good.
• The state of Virginia has a map of all locations that can dispense COVID-19 therapeutics
• The big picture: Paxlovid, which received emergency use authorization in December for high-risk people, reduces the risk of hospitalization for vulnerable adults with mild-to-moderate infection by nearly 90%. The drug must be used as soon as someone tests positive and within five days of symptoms starting…”