CVS will sell swine flu shots at more pharmacies

CVS Caremark Corp. said Wednesday it will start making swine flu shots available at pharmacies around the country starting as early as this week.

The shots cost $15 each. The company said it will offer the shots at more locations as public health authorities distribute more supplies of the vaccine.

CVS currently sells the shots at some retail pharmacies in nine states and Washington, D.C., and at walk-in MinuteClinics in 20 states.

The retail pharmacies are in Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Missouri, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Texas. The clinics are in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas.

CVS runs more than 7,000 drugstores around the U.S. About 500 stores have MinuteClinics. In afternoon trading, its shares slipped 21 cents to $32.10.