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The COVID vaccine campaign has been compared to a wartime effort but it hits a little different when posters of Rosie the Riveter and Uncle Sam asking people to get their shot are plastered around an Army post like Fort Campbell.
Those who were highly motivated at the post are already fully immunized. The post has vaccinated 23,000 people so far. That’s roughly a third of those who are eligible, counting family members and retirees.
But the rest take varying degrees of convincing, says Col. Patrick Birchfield, commander of Blanchfield Army Community Hospital at Fort Campbell.
Five cadets selected by Army for Nurse Summer Training Program
UNG cadets, from left to right, Brandon Ware, Anna Chirillo, Esther Kim, Megan Collins and Haydn Griffin will participate in the Nurse Summer Training Program.
Five University of North Georgia (UNG) cadets have been selected for the Army s competitive Nurse Summer Training Program (NSTP).
The internship will provide Bachelor of Science in Nursing students Anna Chirillo, Megan Collins, Haydn Griffin, Esther Kim, and Brandon Ware with a four-week experience unlike their other clinical rotations. Each will be stationed at a different location in the United States between their junior and senior years.
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CLARKSVILLE, TN (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – It might appear as though Montgomery County is still falling well behind the state on getting folks vaccinated against COVID-19, but if the military community and the federal retail pharmacies are taken into account, that number is actually well over 100,000 vaccines.
In Montgomery County, it appears as though 77,737 COVID-19 vaccines have been reported as of May 3 through the Tennessee Department of Health. This data shows that 21.59% of the population has received at least one dose, and 15.61% are fully vaccinated.
However, Montgomery County Health Director Joey Smith said the state’s data does not account for those who received a vaccine through the Fort Campbell’s Blanchfield Army Community Hospital.
As pandemic precautions continue to fall away on the local, state and national level, Montgomery County s public health director, Joey Smith, is optimistic the COVID-19 pandemic is moving in the right direction, even if it s still far from gone. I m very hopeful, Smith said in an interview with The Leaf-Chronicle. We ll be living with COVID-19 for a long time. It takes a long time before a virus like this can be eradicated from the Earth.
As of April 28, Montgomery County reported 546 active cases on its COVID-19 dashboard. Smith said the county has hovered around 550 cases for about six weeks, adding about 40-50 new cases each day as old cases drop off.
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