Video: R Street’s Courtney Joslin says COVID-19 vaccine success depends on pharmacist regulation reform

Courtney Joslin, commercial freedom fellow at the R Street Institute, discusses her Mercatus Center report on pharmacy scope-of-practice reform. Joslin offered these comments during an interview for the John Locke Foundation’s “HeadLocke” podcast.

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