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ATLANTA-- The Department of Defense has supported the state-run, federally-supported Atlanta Community Vaccination Center since March 24, 2021, and administered the 100,000th dose of the COVID vaccine April 13, 2021.
Soldiers assigned to the 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Georgia, supplement the vaccine process by providing licensed medical professionals and enlisted personnel within specific career fields who are trained and authorized by DoD to administer vaccines. The DoD also provided additional active duty personnel to support mission requirements.
“They started vaccinating here in January, we were able to augment that capacity and increase it substantially to allow us to vaccinate a lot more people in this area,” said U.S. Army Lt. Col. Steven Chadwick, Vaccination Support Team commander.