A worker at a vaccination site in Davis County, Utah uses a tablet to scan a vaccine record.
Davis County Health Department
After a long day of doling out Covid-19 vaccines, workers in Utah County toil late into the night entering data on every single dose. What they don’t finish, they come in early the next morning to file before the state’s daily 7 a.m. reporting deadline.
Even though the county’s appointment system is electronic, each vaccination generates a paper record which must be entered, one at a time, into an electronic system so that they can be transmitted to the state’s immunization registry. If there’s a delay in reporting, a shot that’s in someone’s arm might look like it’s still sitting in a freezer, or worse, that it’s been lost.
A herculean effort : How the National Guard fed and housed soldiers who came to D.C.
Richard Leiby, The Washington Post
Jan. 29, 2021
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Members of the National Guard outside the U.S. Capitol at sunrise on Jan. 19, 2021.Washington Post photo by Matt McClain.
As part of a horde of journalists who swarmed Kuwait in early 2003, I knew it was inevitable: The United States was going to war with Iraq. But until it happened, we were impatient for stories, and the military tried to sell us one: Pay attention to the logistics. I went to a desert staging ground to hear a brigadier general talk about unsexy stuff - how to move an army, the basics of feeding, billeting, equipping, transporting.
WASHINGTON — Roughly 5,000 National Guard troops may remain at the U.S. Capitol through March, and that worries a number of members of Congress, including Rep. Elise M. Stefanik.
National Guard troops will get credit towards GI Bill benefits for Capitol Hill security mission January 28 Georgia Army National Guardsmen from various units of the Macon-based 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team take up security positions outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan 19, 2021. (Sgt. 1st Class R.J. Lannom Jr./Army National Guard) The days and nights National Guard troops spent securing Capitol Hill will count towards time needed to qualify for GI Bill education benefits, according to a memo sent to lawmakers on Thursday. In response to congressional questions about the troops’ deployment status and benefits eligibility, Maj. Gen. Eric Little, director of manpower and personnel for the National Guard Bureau, said troops participating in the ongoing Washington security mission will accrue time needed for Post 9/11 GI Bill payouts.
Anticipating demonstrations and disturbances, DC Guard deployment to continue through end of March January 26 Soldiers with the North Carolina National Guard ride a Metro train that will get them to the station they will guard for the 59th Presidential Inauguration in Washington on Jan. 20, 2021. (Sgt. Abraham Morlu/Army National Guard) The entire D.C. National Guard will remain activated through March 31 due to worries of renewed civil disturbances, and thousands more troops will remain on duty in the nation’s capital until at least mid-March, according to documents obtained by Military Times and statements from National Guard officials. Military Times obtained a Jan. 25 orders memorandum by Maj. Gen. William Walker, commander of the D.C. Guard, stating that the D.C. Guard’s troops will remain “encamped” through March 31 due to “anticipated First Amendment demonstrations and Civil Disturbance response in the District of Columbia.” Politico first obtained the me