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Veterans should contact VA for COVID-19 vaccines, here’s how EXPLAINER: How does the COVID-19 vaccine work? By Laurel Mallory | January 12, 2021 at 7:07 PM EST - Updated January 13 at 6:24 AM COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Officials with the Dept. for Veterans Affairs said there are multiple ways veterans can opt to receive the COVID-19 vaccine in South Carolina. VA staff said they are currently prioritizing veterans who are 75 and older, as well as those with high-risk health conditions who ...

Liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. whats your policy? an investigation shows how u.s. veterans are dying. in this case, though, not by fighting on the battlefield, but by waiting in a monster backlog at v.a. hospitals. were not talking hours. im talking month. time that all cancer patients know can mean the difference between life and death. and whats worse here, the v.a. is in the know. and is doing little about these deadly wait times. drew griffin of cnn investigations has the story. >...

Pick up the phone to make an appointment at a v.a. hospital can be difficult. >> care is being delayed. theres no doubt about it. >> well, its unclear how long its being delayed because no one can give you accurate information. >> and report after report, the government accountability office makes recommendations, but the problems persist at many hospitals. >> nothing has been fully implemented that we know of at this point. >> so you make recommendations and they say theyre working on it. >> ye...

Hospital bed, doesnt get a hospital bed. >> and the state of virginia specifically, jeff gardere, you say, is among one of the worst states when it comes to mental health resources. how bad is it and why? >> yeah, well, from what were hearing, virginias had its highest suicide rate in the past 13 years. it has a very high suicide rate. two reasons have been given. one is that of course the poverty rate and unemployment in virginia, and the stress that goes along with that. but the other part of ...

>> florida congressman jeff miller is chairman of the house committee on veterans affairs. of the million dollars, congress specifically gave to dorn to pay for care for vets on a waiting list, only a third was used for its intended purpose. documents exclusive to cnn show at that same time, the waiting list kept growing. in just five months, from 2,500 patients to a backlog of 3,800. some patients waiting eight months for appointments. >> they will say that we redirected those dollars to go som...

Were having deadly kaubsquences. they reviewed the cases of 280 gastrointestin cancer patients d found 52 of the cases were associated with a delay in diagnosis and treatment. cnn has obtained individual cases like this one, a vet who had to wait nine months for a colonoscopy. a significant delay which would have impacted the stage at which he was diagnosed. records indicate by the time this veteran had surgery, his cancer was at stage three. a second patient had to wait four months for an appoi...

Better survival. >> there is a problem the v.a. said. >> oneal sessions is one of the lucky ones. he said v.a. doctors at dorn medical center told him this spring he didnt even need a colonoscopy. its advice he ignored. this fall, he had one on his own, and his private physician found and removed two polyps. two of which were precancerous. his doctor said had he waited a few years, he would have had colon cancer. it has to be a little disheartening? >> yes, it is. the v.a. is not doing the -- my...

Stole $1.6 million from the truck. it led to a shootout with police leaving two police officers and one guard, dead. and wounded several others. but as dorn v.a. said, at least they didnt kill anyone. the most famous becamings were in 1971, the capitol proceed lefting invasion of laos and the birthday of ho chi minh, and january 29, 1975, bombing of the united states department of state building. in response to escalation in vietnam. if there is a turning point in any of these people, i have nev...

Stole $1.6 million from the truck. it led to a shootout with police leaving two police officers and one guard, dead. and wounded several others. but as dorn v.a. said, at least they didnt kill anyone. the most famous becamings were in 1971, the capitol proceed lefting invasion of laos and the birthday of ho chi minh, and january 29, 1975, bombing of the united states department of state building. in response to escalation in vietnam. if there is a turning point in any of these people, i have nev...