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VA receives 73,000 coronavirus vaccines in initial distribution


By STEVE BEYNON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: December 14, 2020
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WASHINGTON The Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday administered its first doses of the coronavirus vaccine as part of national inoculation effort to prevent the disease as the death toll from the virus surpassed 300,000 in the United States.
World War II Army veteran Margaret Klessens, 96, is the VA’s first patient to receive the vaccine, VA Secretary Robert Wilkie announced. She is a patient of the Bedford Healthcare System in Massachusetts. The Bedford VA system is a set of three clinics outside of Boston that has seen 473 coronavirus infections and 39 deaths, according to the VA. ....

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This Female World War II Vet Is One of the First Americans to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine


This Female World War II Vet Is One of the First Americans to Get the COVID-19 Vaccine
World War II veteran Margaret Klessens, aged 96, became the first Department of Veterans Affairs patient nationwide to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at the VA Bedford Healthcare System on Dec. 14, 2020. Department of Veterans Affairs photo via Twitter
14 Dec 2020
A female World War II veteran has become the first VA patient to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced Monday.
Margaret Klessens, 96, was inoculated Monday at the VA Bedford Healthcare System, the first of thousands of veteran residents of long-term health facilities and VA medical staff expected to get the vaccine in the coming weeks. ....

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