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Airman 1st Class Kimber Bernau, 59th Medical Wing Family Emergency Clinic medical technician, administers the San Antonio Military Health System’s first Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine shot to Maj. Andrew Gausepohl, Dec. 14, 2020, at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas.
The San Antonio Military Health System began administering the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to its highest-risk workers this week.
Arrival and distribution of the vaccine started Monday morning at Joint Base-San Antonio Lackland, following the Food and Drug Administration s emergency use authorization over the weekend.
The first in line to receive the vaccine was Air Force Maj. Andrew Gausepohl, medical director of the 59th Medical Wing s Family Emergency Center.
Air Force major gets first shot as vaccine delivered to Lackland
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Maj. Gen. John DeGoes in a 2019 tour of barracks at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. The hospital at Lackland, Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, became the first in San Antonio to administer a vaccine against the coronavirus on Monday.Ronald Cortes /Contributor /
Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland has begun administering its first doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
A medical officer, Air Force Maj. Andrew Gausepohl, got the first shot, administered Monday at Wilford Hall Ambulatory Surgical Center, hours after the shipment arrived at 9:30 a.m.
A crowd of about 50 people watched and applauded as the needle went in, said Gausepohl, the 59th Medical Wing’s Family Emergency Center medical director.