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This is what it’s like for troops serving at a mass vaccination site March 1 Army Spc. Jeb Hoover vaccinates a community member at the walk-up vaccination site at California State University, Los Angeles in California, Feb. 20, 2021. (Pfc. Garrison Waites/Army) LOS ANGELES ― Hundreds of active-duty and National Guard troops are strapped in for what could be a long ride at Los Angeles’s mass COVID-19 vaccination center, giving up to 6,000 doses a day. “They told me I could be here until September, so we’ll see,” said Senior Airman Samantha Campos, an unmanned aerial vehicle crew chief, who staffs a drive-up vaccine lane. ....
Military begins delivering COVID-19 vaccines in Texas, New York February 24 Military personnel prepare for the opening of a mass Covid-19 vaccination site in the Queens borough of New York on Feb. 24, 2021. (Seth Wenig/AFP via Getty Images) LOS ANGELES The U.S. military on Wednesday began delivering shots at coronavirus vaccination centers in Texas and New York and announced that service members will start staffing four centers in Florida and one in Philadelphia next week. The expanded vaccination effort came as Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met with military commanders overseeing the COVID-19 response effort. He also visited the vaccination center in Los Angeles, the first staffed by the new active-duty military teams that are being developed. ....
Concerns raised about COVID-19 vaccines reaching deployed troops February 18 Spc. Michael Meza administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Spc. Sarrod Hearn Jan. 18 at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. (Sgt. 1st Class Noel Gerig/Army) The Pentagon can’t say precisely how many doses have gone to deployed units, a defense official who was not authorized to speak on the record told Military Times on Wednesday, only that out of more than a million doses shipped worldwide, more than 200,000 have gone outside of the contiguous United States. That includes to personnel stationed overseas in Germany, Italy, Korea and Japan. “If we have a major outbreak here, it has huge operational impacts. and yet, our providers haven’t even been vaccinated yet,” a soldier whose unit is spread across Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Syria, who asked not to be identified, told Military Times. “It’s crazy.” ....