By WYATT OLSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 22, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. Nearly 3,000 personnel aboard the USS Carl Vinson were inoculated against the coronavirus in a single day, the Navy’s largest distribution of the vaccine on the West Coast, the service said in a news release Monday. More than 2,900 members of the aircraft carrier’s crew, strike group staff and embarked helicopter squadrons were given the first round of the two-dose Pfizer vaccine on Friday, the release said. The ship has a crew of about 3,000, Indo-Pacific Command said in September.
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Feb. 22 If you get your health care through the Department of Defense, you might be able to get the COVID-19 vaccine through Madigan Army Medical Center on Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
Madigan is following the DOD s vaccine rollout plan and is currently in phase 1B, which means TRICARE patients over 75 years old, health care workers and military personnel who are preparing to deploy outside the United States can get the vaccine.
Those who qualify for the vaccine at Madigan can go online to make an appointment or call the Madigan COVID-19 vaccine hotline: 253-968-4744.
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