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The COVID vaccine campaign has been compared to a wartime effort but it hits a little different when posters of Rosie the Riveter and Uncle Sam asking people to get their shot are plastered around an Army post like Fort Campbell.
Those who were highly motivated at the post are already fully immunized. The post has vaccinated 23,000 people so far. That’s roughly a third of those who are eligible, counting family members and retirees.
But the rest take varying degrees of convincing, says Col. Patrick Birchfield, commander of Blanchfield Army Community Hospital at Fort Campbell.
Clarksville NowContributed, BACH101st Airborne Division and Fort Campbell Commanding General Maj. Gen. Brian E. Winski receives the COVID-19 vaccine recently at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital from Sgt. DaLee Cetta, licensed practical nurse.
FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – Leaders from the 101st Airborne Division and Fort Campbell volunteered to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at Blanchfield Army Community Hospital recently, marking the hospital’s transition from healthcare and emergency service personnel to Phase 1B vaccinations.
“Our next group that are going in Phase 1 are our critical and essential staff. So, command teams and those decision makers and leaders. We want to make sure we are keeping them safe and protected,” said Maj. Jade Snader, chief nurse for Blanchfield’s Soldier Health Services and helping lead the COVID-vaccine mission.