These Guard troops on COVID duty vaccinated their grandmothers
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Nebraska Army National Guard Spc. Garett Rollag, a combat medic, recently administered both doses of COVID-19 vaccine to his grandmother, Marilyn Bachmann. (Courtesy photo)
More than 6 million Americans have received their COVID-19 vaccines through the National Guard as of April 7.
“We just reached this yesterday — over 6 million COVID vaccines [administered] to our citizens across the nation,” Army Col. Larry Fletcher, deputy director of the National Guard Bureau joint surgeon’s office, said during a Thursday media roundtable.
“Right now, we have over 31,000 Guardsmen directly supporting COVID operations,” said Fletcher. “[We are] involved in administration at nearly 1,000 vaccine sites across 40 states.”