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Airman 1st Class Kimber Bernau, 59th Medical Wing Family Emergency Clinic medical technician, administers the San Antonio Military Health System’s first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot to Maj. Andrew Gausepohl, Dec. 14, 2020, at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas.
The San Antonio Military Health System began administering the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to its highest-risk workers this week.
Arrival and distribution of the vaccine started Monday morning at Joint Base-San Antonio Lackland, following the Food and Drug Administration s emergency use authorization over the weekend.
The first in line to receive the vaccine was Air Force Maj. Andrew Gausepohl, medical director of the 59th Medical Wing s Family Emergency Center.
Air Force major gets first shot as vaccine delivered to Lackland
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Maj. Gen. John DeGoes in a 2019 tour of barracks at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. The hospital at Lackland, Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, became the first in San Antonio to administer a vaccine against the coronavirus on Monday.Ronald Cortes /Contributor /
Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland has begun administering its first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
A medical officer, Air Force Maj. Andrew Gausepohl, got the first shot, administered Monday at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, hours after the shipment arrived at 9:30 a.m.
A crowd of about 50 people watched and applauded as the needle went in, said Gausepohl, the 59th Medical Wing’s Family Emergency Center medical director.
By ROSE L. THAYER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 15, 2020
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. AUSTIN, Texas – Within about three hours of the first shipments of the coronavirus vaccine arriving Monday morning at Joint Base San Antonio, Maj. Andrew Gausepohl became the base’s first military health care worker to receive the injection. “While I was first in line, while I was the first one to get it, it wasn’t for me. It was for my patients. For the patients that I can now see and not be concerned about spreading this disease,” said Gausepohl, who is the medical director of the 59th Medical Wing Family Emergency Center.