By STEVE BEYNON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 14, 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. WASHINGTON The Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday administered its first doses of the coronavirus vaccine as part of national inoculation effort to prevent the disease as the death toll from the virus surpassed 300,000 in the United States. World War II Army veteran Margaret Klessens, 96, is the VA’s first patient to receive the vaccine, VA Secretary Robert Wilkie announced. She is a patient of the Bedford Healthcare System in Massachusetts. The Bedford VA system is a set of three clinics outside of Boston that has seen 473 coronavirus infections and 39 deaths, according to the VA.
They are expecting to receive a shipment of Pfizerâs COVID-19 vaccine in the next two days.
Vaccine for VA By Lauren Jackson | December 14, 2020 at 10:20 PM CST - Updated December 14 at 10:20 PM
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The Birmingham VA Health Care System is expecting to receive a shipment of Pfizerâs COVID-19 vaccine in the next two days.
Birmingham VA Hospital Clinic is expecting to get 975 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. This first round will be split between clinic and hospital health care workers, and veteran patients who are over 90 years old.
The Birmingham VA office is one of 37 sites across the country to receive initial doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
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Thirty-seven hospitals within the Department of Veterans Affairs have been selected to receive the first doses of the coronavirus vaccine, though VA officials are not confident that every veteran will have quick, easy access to the treatment.