The last year has been isolating for Vietnam veteran Dennis Williams.
The 75-year-old used to travel 50 miles from his home in Burnet to the Cedar Park Community Based Outpatient Clinic for medical services and to catch up with friends he’d made over the years.
“They call us the dirty dozen,” he said of the 12 men who share stories over coffee and snacks and have become a support system for one another.
The new coronavirus pandemic forced Williams, who is diabetic and at greater risk of becoming severely ill from the virus, to mostly stay home where he lives by himself. Then this month’s snowstorm kept him locked in his house for roughly 10 days.
Central Texas VA begins vaccinating vets 85 years and older for COVID-19
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TEMPLE, TX â The Central Texas Veterans Health Care System has begun offering Modernaâs COVID-19 vaccine to all enrolled veterans 85 years of age and older.
It s another step towards the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) broader goal to offer COVID-19 vaccinations to all veterans and employees who want to be vaccinated
âLarge scale vaccination is the key to ending the disruption of the COVID-19 virus. My team will not rest until we have vaccinated every veteran enrolled in our health care system who wishes to be inoculated,â said Medical Center Director Michael L. Kiefer. âWe have several thousand doses for veterans 85 and older. However, if unused, we will expand to younger veterans.â