COVID-19 vaccinations begin on Fort Carson
AP
and last updated 2020-12-22 18:08:14-05
COLORADO SPRINGS â Vaccines are now being offered to healthcare workers and emergency services personnel on Fort Carson. The army post is the first military installation in Colorado to receive doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine.
Evans Army Community Hospital is managing the administration of the vaccine to personnel beginning today.
According to the Department of Defense plan, the order of vaccinations will proceed as follows:
Phase 1 - Healthcare providers, healthcare support, emergency services & public safety personnel
substages cover critical national capabilities , personnel preparing to deploy overseas, other critical and essential support personnel
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.
The nation’s first vaccines for the deadly COVID-19 virus that has plagued most of 2020 will be distributed Monday, following yesterday’s emergency-use authorization by the Food and Drug Administration for the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Army Gen. Gustave F. Perna said in a press briefing today.
Perna is the chief operating officer for Operation Warp Speed an effort led by several U.S. government components and public partnerships to move the development, manufacturing and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics and diagnostics.
“Make no mistake distribution has begun,” Perna said, adding that right now, boxes are being packed and loaded with vaccines, with emphasis on quality control.
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The 12 DoD sites within the continental U.S. selected for vaccination distribution are:
Darnall Army Medical Center, Fort Hood, TX
Willford Hall, Joint Base San Antonio, TX
Madigan Army Medical Center, Joint Base Lewis McChord, WA
Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, NC
Navy Branch Health Clinic, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, FL
Base Alameda Health Services (clinic), U.S. Coast Guard Base, Alameda, CA
Naval Medical Center, San Diego, CA
Naval Hospital Pensacola, Pensacola, FL
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD
Portsmouth Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA
Indiana National Guard, Franklin, IN
New York National Guard Medical Command, Watervliet, NY