By STEPHEN T. WATSON | The Buffalo News, N.Y. | Published: March 5, 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. BUFFALO, N.Y. (Tribune News Service) When staff from the Veterans Affairs Western New York Healthcare System weighed how best to deliver the Covid-19 vaccine to eligible veterans, they worried bringing them into the Buffalo VA Medical Center for appointments presented a potential safety risk. So officials got creative, setting up a dedicated vaccination clinic in a large, climate-controlled tent in the parking lot outside the main hospital. Local VA leaders say it s the first clinic of its kind within the national VA health system and it s the reason the local VA health network has provided initial vaccine doses to more than 14,000 veterans, most over the last six weeks.