Tens of thousands of U.S. vets living overseas left to find COVID vaccine doses on their own 1 day ago A vial of the COVID-19 vaccine and a syringe sit on a table at the Pittsburgh International Airport Air Reserve Station in Pennsylvania on Jan. 28. (Joshua J. Seybert/Air Force) When Congress passed legislation last month to expand COVID vaccine distribution to all veterans and caregivers, Marine Corps veteran Wayne Beverly
hoped
he’d be able to get an appointment through his local U.S. embassy. Instead, the expatriate living in Thailand has been frustrated to find out that enrollees in the Department of Veterans Affairs Foreign Medical Program are still on their own to find doses.
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All vets could be eligible for COVID vaccines at VA soon, but supply problems remain the biggest challenge March 9 President Joe Biden, left, visits a COVID-19 vaccination site at the Washington, D.C., VA Medical Center and watches as Dr. Navjit Goraya gives a vaccine to Air Force Col. Margaret Cope on March 8, 2021. White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients, standing center, and Veterans Affairs Secretary Denis McDonough, right, also attended the event. (Patrick Semansky/AP) Congress and Veterans Affairs leaders want to get as many veterans vaccinated against COVID-19 as possible in coming months. How quickly they can do that is still a big question, however.
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