Lopez Island Pharmacy

01/08/2026

Lopez Island Pharmacy will be opening up more appointments for Covid as well as Flu 65+ and Flu under 65 today at 2pm.
To book an appointment go to our website www.lopezislandpharmacy.com and please remember to fill out your vaccination consent form after booking (links to the forms can be found on our website as well as your confirmation email)

Lopez Island Only Pharmacy

01/02/2026

I will be handing over the reins of the Lopez Island Pharmacy page to Josuah Tilus, so I will no longer be posting here.

I will continue to post health-related material on my personal page, Marge Rau McCoy.

Cheers to a healthy 2026 for everyone! (Raven photo for metrics)

01/01/2026

To our wonderful Lopez Community,

We have been blessed to be your pharmacists for the past 31 years. We appreciate and value the trust and loyalty you have given us. We often brag to our colleagues about how supportive our community is, and we are so grateful for all of you.

Our end goal has always been to leave Lopez with a strong pharmacy, high caliber pharmacy ownership, and a pharmacist dedicated to patient care as a primary goal. We think we finally found that and it is worth the extra time it took!

As of 1/1/26, Lopez Island Pharmacy will be owned and operated by Josuah Tilus, in partnership with Cascadia Pharmacy Group. Josuah brings a caring attitude and team approach to pharmacy management. He is a wonderful young man and our community is lucky he choose us! All our current staff remain on board to help, and we will be occasionally lurking around the pharmacy to help out as well. We will fill in and take some after hours calls to support Josuah.

With gratitude to all of our employees, past and present, to everyone that made memories Trick or Treating, dining at the Soda Fountain, shopping at the pharmacy or attending our vaccine clinics. Thank you Lopez, it’s been an awesome 31 years.

Rick and Marge
Lopez Island Pharmacy

12/31/2025

Happy New Year’s Eve!
If you have prescriptions waiting at the pharmacy, please pick them up by 3:00 pm TODAY. It will really help with our year end inventory. Thank you.

12/29/2025

Lopez Island Pharmacy will be closed for New Years
Closing early on Wednesday 12/31/25 at 3pm and closed Thursday 1/1/2026 through Sunday 1/4/2026. We will reopen on Monday 1/5/2026

12/25/2025

I admit this article is a bit long and a bit technical, however it is very well written.

The ability of SARS CoV2 viruses to evade detection and change host cellular response are some of the many reasons I have such respect for the damage that the SARS CoV2 virus can inflict. It is really an elegant little invading overlord, adept at overthrowing host defense systems. And it appears to be constantly evolving and improving its systems. Very scary, and not enough people recognize this.

Sure you might have mild symptoms now, but what is happening to your cells once the invasion begins? What other effects will happen 3 years from now, 10 years from now?

This is why I still take precautions. I may inevitably come down with Covid, but I am going to avoid it as much as possible.

SARS-CoV-2 evades early immune defenses and triggers delayed hyperinflammation, leading to acute damage and chronic immune dysfunction that underlies Long COVID.

12/19/2025

Lopez Island Pharmacy will be closing early on December 24th, Christmas Eve at 3pm. We will be closed December 25th - Sunday December 28th. We will reopen on Monday December 29th.

11/25/2025

Vaccines and Autism - know the facts. There is no data to indicate that vaccines cause Autism.

11/25/2025

Lopez Island Pharmacy will be closing early on Wednesday November 26th at 4pm. We will then be closed Thursday 11/27 - Sunday 11/30 for Thanksgiving. We will reopen on Monday December 1st.

11/19/2025

Good news for Medicare age beneficiaries. Telehealth benefits return through January 2026.

The two-month reprieve extends through January 2026. While some providers are restarting telehealth services, it remains unclear whether eligible virtual care reimbursements, accrued during the 43-day shutdown, will be approved for retroactive payment.

11/18/2025

Consider masking this fall/winter while in public places.

Data from Canada, UK, and Japan reveal an H3N2 flu variant that may affect 2025-2026 season.

10/06/2025

Lopez Island Pharmacy will be Closed on Monday October 13th for Indigenous Peoples’ Day