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US Secretary of Veterans Affairs Coming to St. Cloud Denis McDonough will be in St. Cloud Thursday. He will be holding a media briefing at 10:10 a.m. at the St. Cloud VA Medical Center. McDonough was nominated by President Biden to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs. His nomination was confirmed by the United States Senate on February 8th, and he was sworn in the following day as the 11th Secretary of Veterans Affairs. McDonough previously served under the Obama administration as the White...

70% of St. Cloud Area Veterans are Vaccinated [PODCAST] This month on WJONs Voices for Veterans segment I was joined by Barry Venable, Public Affairs Officer from the St. Cloud V.A. and Josh Goudge, Veteran Services Supervisor from the St. Cloud V.A.  Barry says 70% of veterans enrolled at the St. Cloud V.A. have been vaccinated for Covid-19  including more than 90% of those 85 years of age and older.  He says hed like to see veterans 50 and younger get the vaccine in larger numbers than wha...

St. Cloud VA Now Offering Vaccines for All Veterans [PODCAST] The St. Cloud V.A. continues to progress with their Covid-19 vaccine rollout.  Today on WJONs Voices for Veterans segment I was joined by Director of Pharmacy J.D. Anderson and Public Affairs Officer Barry Venable from the St. Cloud V.A.  Anderson says the St. Cloud V.A. has administered more than 18,000 doses of the vaccine and approximately 6,000 veterans have completed the vaccination process.  He says have been using both the ...

St. Cloud V.A. Director of Pharmacy J.D. Anderson and St. Cloud V.A. Public Affairs Officer Barry Venable joined me on WJON today for our Voices for Veteran segment.  Anderson says the St. Cloud V.A. has vaccinated more than 9,000 people with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine and that number includes health care workers and nearly 7,000 veterans.  Anderson says they are still vaccinating veterans who are 75+ but expect to start vaccinating the next group which extends to 65+ next week.  Listen to...

The St. Cloud VA Health Care System will begin distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday.

This month on our Voices for Veterans segment I talked with St. Cloud V.A. Director Dr. Brent Thelen and St. Cloud V.A. Public Affairs Officer Barry Venable Thelen says the St. Cloud V.A. is ready to vaccinate veterans when the vaccine is shipped to St. Cloud.