CVS is a pharmacy. That means it is already a magnet for sick people.

Allergies? Pharmacy. Long-term disease? Pharmacy. Cold or flu or want to try the natural meds for pinkeye? Pharmacy. And a slew of other infectious and non-infectious diseases, maladies, and injuries.

Minute clinic facility usually has physical separation from CVS store, no?

The one I've seen was just an extra room inside the store, beside the pharmacy. There was no physical separation of patients from shoppers. Same thing at Walgreens Healthcare Clinic, just extra rooms beside the pharmacy.

Don’t the walking dead already pick up prescriptions there?

I share your concern. Maybe they could service people out of Tesla Semis in the parking lot? Only half joking.

Why do we still have to pick prescriptions up? We have pizza delivery — why not for medicines? Order your drugs with an app and it shows up at your door.

Prescriptions have been available with delivery or mail order service for at least the last ten years. I have worked for at least two private pharmacies (in different states) who offered delivery service, and several of my classmates went to work for the mail-order fill companies as the "stare and compare" pharmacist checker.

The VA offers mail delivery for prescription medications. I imagine it has something to do with it being a single payer system, & they have to look for any chance to optimize in the whole medical food chain instead of just the pharmacy portion.

cvs caremark and express scripts already send out billions of scripts via mail every year. Mostly maintenance medications, of course.