The Weed Army Community Hospital at Ft. Irwin, California continues to vaccinate service members and civilians, and has begun giving the second round of doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
The start of the second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine brings Fort Irwin and the National Training Center one step closer to phase 2 of the population schema, which, according to the Department of Defense, is when healthy uniform personnel and TRICARE beneficiaries who did not meet the criteria for phase 1 can start to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
More and more individuals eligible under phase 1 continue to opt in to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, including those who previously had the disease.
Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine to roll out at Barstow Veterans Home on Thursday
Victorville Daily Press
After the successful administering of the first round of the COVID-19 vaccine at a veterans home in Northern California last week, the Veterans Home of California-Barstow is scheduled to do the same.
California Department of Veterans Affairs spokesperson Lindsey Sin said the home in Barstow is scheduled to have a clinic on site Thursday in partnership with CVS to administer the Pfizer vaccine.
Sin told the Daily Press CVS is bringing its own clinical team to conduct the inoculations.
The vaccine will be given to healthcare personnel, followed by veterans who are “at high risk of severe illness from COVID-19,” according to San Bernardino County Veterans Affairs Director Frank Guevara.