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U.S. SENATE - Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Jon Tester (D-Mont.), U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-Ark.), Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee Ranking Member Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) announced Monday via press release that they will introduce bipartisan legislation to expand COVID-19 vaccine eligibility to veterans and their families under the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The Senators’ Strengthening and Amplifying Vaccination Efforts to Locally Immunize all Veterans and Every Spouse (SAVE LIVES) Act would allow VA to pro...

Lawmakers Want to Make All Vets, Some Caregivers Eligible for VA COVID-19 Vaccines U.S. Army Spc. Carlos Hernandez, a combat medic specialist with 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, administers a vaccine against COVD-19 to Kenneth Grindley, a 95-year-old World War II Army veteran, on California State University, Los Angeles, Feb. 19, 2021. (Simone Lara/U.S. Army National Guard) 26 Feb 2021 When Vietnam veteran Donald Snyder heard his local Department of Veterans Affairs hospital was offering coronavirus vaccines to vets 65 and older, he immediately called to make an appointment. But Snyder, ...

Measure would allow VA to give coronavirus vaccine to any veteran and most caregivers February 24 Air Force Lt. Col. Roy Loque, 17th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron commander, readies a COVID-19 vaccination at the Mathis Fitness Center on Goodfellow Air Force Base in Texas on Jan. 20, 2021. (Senior Airman Abbey Rieves/Air Force) Any veteran or their caregiver would be eligible to receive a coronavirus vaccine at Veterans Affairs medical centers under a new bipartisan proposal unveiled Wednesday. But the plan doesn’t guarantee enough vaccines will be available at VA facilities ...