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Maj. Michael O Hagan A box with 10 multi-dose vials of the Janssen COVID-19 vaccine. The Johnson & Johnson (Janssen) vaccine requires one shot as compared to the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, which require a shot and booster.
Eighty-five veterans Thursday received the single shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine in Glasgow, Montana. The shots were part of nearly 10,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine distributed by Montana Veteran Affairs since December.
The Montana VA Health Care System, which is leading a national pilot program to bring COVID-19 vaccines to rural veterans, flew the Johnson and Johnson vaccine from the Fort Harrison Medical VA Center in Helena to a clinic in Glasgow early Thursday morning.
Successful COVID vaccination events held in Havre
Havre Daily News/Colin Thompson
A veteran receives a COVID-19 vaccination in in Holiday Village Mall. Montana Veterans Affairs was giving the first round of the COVID-19 vaccine to Hi-Line veterans Thursday.
Editor’s note: This version includes comments by U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont.
The Holiday Village Mall played host to two successful local COVID-19 vaccination clinics, one in the Former Herberger s location run by the the Merril Lundman Department of Veterans Affairs Outpatient Clinic, and the other in the former Famous Footwear location, run by the Hill County Health Department, Northern Montana Hospital and Bullhook Community Health Center.