CVS Pharmacy complaint: Pharmacist refusal to administer second vaccine shot

On January 21, 2022, after completing the online registration, I arrived for my Moderna vaccine shot, it was administered by an on-duty pharmacist.

On February 18, 2022, again after completing the online registration, I arrived for my second Moderna vaccine shot and only this time the pharmacist (Lexi, supervising pharmacist) refused to give me the shot. Her stance was that …this could kill you. She made other remarks that made it apparent that she was taking some personal position about administering the shot (or administering it to ME).

I returned home and it was only then that I saw the text from CVS that stated: Due to unforeseen circumstances, we’ve had to cancel your appointment(s). We apologize and encourage you to reschedule. On a second attempt, I was granted an appointment.

On February 19, 2022…I encountered the same pharmacist and the exchange was more of the previous day’s. Only this time, the pharmacist told some lies. She said that she had called my doctor to get approval and had not heard back from the doctor AND that she had told me this yesterday. That is a lie because had she told me that she was going to call my doctor, I would have left well enough alone and waited to hear from my doctor.

She then went on to say, again, that the vaccine could kill me and that she doesn’t want to be responsible. I told her that I had filled out the application and checked off the Consent portion. She said that the application is generic and that it doesn’t apply to special populations like me…because I had GBS [at the age of ten and yes I have residuals all these many many years later]…that GBS stays with me for life…not going to administer the shot.

I asked for a position statement from CVS stating that the Pharmacy was not administering the vaccine to GBS patients specifically and she refused my request. After she walked off saying that she was done talking to me and that I was the one making a scene, I left for a second time without receiving my second vaccine shot.