FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) The nation s most aggressive mass vaccination campaign is underway. Womack Army Medical Center nurse Roni Paul made history as one of the first people to be vaccinated. He reported side effects within 24 hours. Really mild muscle aches, low grade fever and fatigue. You know after a long days work you re tired and ready to go to bed? That s how I felt, said Paul.
He anticipated mild side effects and took Tylenol and Motrin before the vaccine.
The 47-year-old was vaccinated Tuesday. He took Wednesday off and returned to work with no side effects by Thursday.
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“This is a milestone moment for us here on Fort Bragg,” Lt. Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, commander of the 18th Airborne Corps and Fort Bragg, said in the release. “We would not have arrived at this moment without our first responders, medics, health care workers, and the incredible staff of the Womack Army Medical Center.”
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Updated December 15, 2020 7:53 p.m. EST
By Lora Lavigne, WRAL Durham reporter
Durham, N.C. A Navy veteran was first in line Tuesday to receive a coronavirus vaccination at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Durham.
Oliver Vick was among 25 veterans in the Durham VA Healthcare System s long-term care facility who volunteered to receive their first dose of the vaccine. Vick said he considers it a duty to help defeat the virus, and he was glad to once again serve his country. We have been held captive for too long by this virus, he said. This is just our way of fighting back. It’s going to make a big difference for everybody.”
By ROSE L. THAYER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 15, 2020
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. AUSTIN, Texas – Within about three hours of the first shipments of the coronavirus vaccine arriving Monday morning at Joint Base San Antonio, Maj. Andrew Gausepohl became the base’s first military health care worker to receive the injection. “While I was first in line, while I was the first one to get it, it wasn’t for me. It was for my patients. For the patients that I can now see and not be concerned about spreading this disease,” said Gausepohl, who is the medical director of the 59th Medical Wing Family Emergency Center.