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Steve Kriner of the Olean VA delivers a COVID-19 vaccine to 100-year-old veteran Joseph Brunacini of Jamestown at American Legion Herman Kent Post 777 on Sunday.
P-J photos by Jay Young
Hundreds of veterans from around the Southern Tier visited American Legion Herman Kent Post 777 on Jackson Avenue Sunday to receive their COVID-19 vaccines.
The clinic was the largest rural outreach program that the United States Department of Veterans Affairs has undertaken thus far, with 800 doses of the Pfizer vaccine on site for distribution.
“You can see it here, it is a pretty well-oiled machine where they are only on site for 20 minutes, 25 minutes tops,” said Sean Lindstrom, COVID-19 vaccine coordinator for the VA Western New York Health System. “We are able to flip these veterans through very quickly and receive a high number of patients through. What we heard on Friday was that this was going to be the largest rural outreach that the VA has ever done. Not