Fort Carson offering walk-in COVID-19 vaccinations to beneficiaries 18 and up
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Pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced on its website that it had received permission from the Food and Drug Administration that they can enroll children as young as 12 in its COVID-19 vaccine trial. (Federica Narancio/AP)
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FORT CARSON â Fort Carson announced Monday that they are currently offering Moderna COVID-19 vaccines on a walk-in basis for TRICARE beneficiaries age 18 and up at the William âBillâ Reed Special Events Center Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Enrollment at Evans Army Community Hospital is not necessary for TRICARE beneficiaries to receive the vaccine.
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Brenda Spillane receives a hug from her oldest child, Ashli Thompson, as five of the 12 Spillane children gather in Peyton Wednesday, April 21, 2021. From left to right is Creed Spillane, eighth child; Ashli; Charity Betts, second child; Summer Jordan, third child; and Ryan Spillane, fifth child and oldest boy.
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It was an accidental beginning that spawned fate, faith and a sprawling legacy that, today, can be hard to keep straight, even for a matriarch with a cheat sheet.
The Spillanes are a military family like so many families in Colorado Springs. They’re also a family that’s not like very many families at all.
“They were like the American von Trapps,” said Amy Johnson, who was unofficially adopted by the family when she was a young Army officer serving in Germany during the Reagan years. “At that time, they only had 11 kids, I think.”
The Spillane’s Aspen grove of a modern family tree began, as abiding love stories do, with a moment of serendipity.
By DAVID BITTON | The Gazette | Published: April 6, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Tribune News Service) Military leaders across Colorado are still rushing to vaccinate troops, but it remains unclear how many are opting out of vaccines and how that could impact operations at home and overseas. For months, inoculations for troops, retirees, civilian workers and family members have been a top priority for bases from Aurora to Colorado Springs.