Here's when the Covid vaccine could be available at your neighborhood drugstore, grocery store

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It will still be several months, however, before the average person can walk into their local drugstore or grocery store and receive the vaccine. In interviews with CNBC, Walgreens and CVS Health officials said they expect to give shots to the general public starting in the early spring.

"Over the next couple of months we anticipate that we'll be able to have [it in] our stores similar to the flu season," Rina Shah, group vice president of pharmacy operations at Walgreens, said Monday on CNBC's "The Exchange." She said that would be "hopefully in the spring timeframe."

For now, Shah said, it's important for health-care workers and long-term care facilities residents to take priority, because supplies remain limited.

"As more and more vaccine becomes available, access to that vaccine will continue to grow," she said.

Chris Cox, a senior vice president of CVS, said he hopes the company can give the vaccine at its drugstores "somewhere in the April/May timeframe."

Costco also is assuming it will begin offering the general public Covid-19 vaccinations at its in-store pharmacies around early spring, CEO Craig Jelinek said Monday on CNBC's "Closing Bell."