Tracking down Paxlovid in NYC

January 10, 2024 7:57 AM

My partner has Covid and is feeling very sick. His doctor prescribed Paxlovid, but none of our regular pharmacies seem to have it in stock. If you've recently had Covid in NYC, can you recommend a pharmacy to try? Or, if you know of another route, I'd be interested in that as well—some kind of overnight mail situation maybe?
posted by Mender to Health & Fitness (8 answers total)

I don't know if they have paxlovid, but we have been loving Amazon Pharmacy for pseudoephedrine. The local pharmacies were always out of stock, even if you had a prescription. But Amazon Pharmacy always delivers next day, or the day after. Set up your profile first, then have your doc send the Rx to Amazon Pharmacy under your name. Pretty seamless.
posted by xedrik at 8:02 AM on January 10

We obtained paxlovid from the Union Square Walgreens this year, and *sigh* last year from Alto Pharmacy, which did overnight delivery.
posted by praemunire at 8:17 AM on January 10 [1 favorite]

Best answer: There's a government website that helps track who has paxlovid in stock! https://healthdata.gov/stories/s/COVID-19-Public-Therapeutic-Locator/chu2-wqes/
posted by lorimt at 9:05 AM on January 10 [13 favorites]

We got it a week ago at the Duane Reade on 57th and 3rd.
posted by millipede at 9:07 AM on January 10

My friend got it Saturday at the Walgreens on Nostrand and Fulton (Brooklyn)
posted by greta simone at 10:26 AM on January 10

I got paxlovid 2 weeks ago from a tiny, friendly pharmacy in my Queens neighborhood called Phil's Pills. They filled my prescription within a few hours of when I received it.
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 10:32 AM on January 10

Response by poster: Thank you all! We were finally able to track some down using the database that lorimt shared
posted by Mender at 12:18 PM on January 10 [2 favorites]

Yay! Here's the live link to the government locator database shared by lorimt, in case anyone else needs it.
posted by virago at 2:44 PM on January 10 [1 favorite]