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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. ....
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Pentagon deploys more than 1,100 troops to fuel COVID-19 vaccine drive February 5 Air Force Lt. Col. Roy Loque, 17th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron commander, readies a COVID-19 vaccination at the Mathis Fitness Center on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Jan. 20, 2021. (Senior Airman Abbey Rieves/Air Force) WASHINGTON The Pentagon will deploy more than 1,100 troops to five vaccination centers in what will be the first wave of increased military support for the White House campaign to get more Americans inoculated against COVID-19. President Joe Biden has called for setting up 100 mass vaccination centers around the country within a month. One of the five new military teams will go to a vaccination center opening in California. Other centers are expected to be announced soon. ....
Fauci, first lady, military leaders urge dubious military families to get the facts on COVID-19 vaccine February 4 Kathy Roth-Douquet, CEO of Blue Star Families, left, and Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, participate in a town hall. (screenshot via YouTube) After their recent poll showed that more than half of military families don’t plan to get the COVID-19 vaccination, Blue Star Families brought in the big guns including Dr. Anthony Fauci, first lady Jill Biden, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and his wife Hollyanne to urge military families to get the facts before making their decisions. ....
VA passes 1 million vaccine doses, 9,000 deaths in fight against coronavirus February 3 The Orlando Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Florida has administered more coronavirus vaccine doses in the last month and a half than any other department medical center, according to VA officials. (Photo courtesy of VA) Veterans Affairs officials marked a pair of very different coronavirus milestones this week: more than 1 million coronavirus vaccine doses administered in the last month and a half, and more than 9,000 patient deaths in the last 11 months. The vaccine doses administered include about 400,000 shots given to VA employees and 626,000 shots given to veterans at the highest risk of medical complications related to the virus, according to information released by the department. ....