By NANCY MONTGOMERY | STARS AND STRIPES 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. VICENZA, Italy The U.S. military in Europe isn’t expected to get the one-shot Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine anytime soon and doesn’t yet have enough of the Moderna vaccine to inoculate lower priority groups, military health officials said this week. The differences in vaccine availability between services and locations have left many people overseas uncertain about when they’ll get their turn, even as the Defense Department prepares to open up vaccinations through the military community next month.
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