Updated 12/18/20, 9:37 a.m.
Hawaiʻi s Tripler Army Medical Center is part of a Defense Department test project to distribute COVID-19 vaccines. The Oʻahu military hospital is one of 16 locations worldwide selected by the Pentagon to assess its ability to ship vaccine doses to military personnel, their families, and the department s civilian work force.
Much like the broader population, the military will prioritize healthcare workers and personnel in critical jobs for early vaccination, before shifting to those most vulnerable to infection. We ve already had quite a few patients at the hospital, most of them are older, and we ve had quite a few die unfortunately from COVID, said Col. Martin Doperak, a physician and Commander of Tripler Army Medical Center.
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By CAITLIN DOORNBOS | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 18, 2020
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan The annual flu-shot campaign, SHOTEX, at the naval hospital here provided a mass-immunization dry run for the corpsmen preparing to inoculate thousands of personnel with the coming coronavirus vaccine. The Nov. 16-Dec. 11 campaign provided Navy corpsmen real-world experience that could come in handy once the coronavirus vaccine is available for the general public, Naval Medical Forces Pacific spokeswoman Regena Kowitz said in an email Friday.
Frontline military medical workers among first in Hawaii to receive coronavirus vaccine
Dr. Scott Belnap, a physician at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, receives the COVID-19 vaccine, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020.
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By WYATT OLSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 18, 2020
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. TRIPLER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Hawaii Hundreds of military medical personnel on Oahu had been inoculated against the coronavirus as of Thursday morning, two days after Tripler Army Medical Center received an initial batch of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
Military Veterans In Hawaii Will Have To Wait For A Coronavirus Vaccine - Honolulu Civil Beat
Military Veterans In Hawaii Will Have To Wait For A Coronavirus Vaccine
The VA Pacific Islands Healthcare System will not receive the Pfizer vaccine, but may get the Moderna vaccine if the FDA approves it. Reading time: 3 minutes.
The Department of Veterans Affairs began administering its first doses of the newly approved COVID-19 vaccine on the mainland this week. But veterans in Hawaii will have to wait a bit longer.
The VA recently announced its initial 37 vaccination sites that will be receiving the Pfizer vaccine, the first to be approved by the federal Food and Drug Administration. The sites include several regional systems on the mainland as well as the Caribbean VA Healthcare System in Puerto Rico.