By THOMAS GNAU | The Dayton Daily News | Published: January 14, 2021
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. DAYTON, Ohio (Tribune News Service) The COVID-19 vaccine is not mandatory, and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base employees can volunteer to get the vaccine, but only in the appropriate phasing, Col. Patrick, Miller, commander of the 88th Air Base Wing and Wright-Patterson installation commander, said Wednesday. And that phasing is following a Department of Defense plan: Health care and essential first-responders are to get the vaccine first, then people necessary to accomplish certain key missions, Airmen set to deploy, then high-risk beneficiaries before, finally, the healthy population, Miller said.
Wright-Patt receives first shipment of COVID vaccine
By London Bishop - lbishop@aimmediamidwest.com
Luke Rhoades, a 788th Engineer Group firefighter, receives the COVID-19 vaccine from Capt. Erica Eyer, an 88th Medical Group flight commander.
Air Force Maj. Richard Brocksmith, an 88th Medical Group nurse anesthetist, listens to instructions from Maj. Holly Holko, medical services flight commander, while receiving the COVID-19 vaccine from nurse Dale Guinther at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has received and distributed its first shipment of the coronavirus vaccine, the base announced Monday evening.
Staff at Wright-Patterson Medical Center began administering the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Monday, starting with Air Force medical staff and first responders. This first wave of vaccine distribution follows guidance from the Department of Defense, which prioritizes health care providers, support staff, emergency
By THOMAS GNAU | Dayton Daily News | Published: January 2, 2021
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. (Tribune News Service) When Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Christina Ré started training in military health care, she could not know that one day she would need to call on untold reserves of resilience and flexibility during a global pandemic. But that s where she and her Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Medical Center team find themselves now. I ve worked pretty much everywhere and around the world, Ré said. And I ve deployed plenty of times. This is my passion; this is what I love to do. I take care of folks.