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FORT CAMPBELL, KY (CLARKSVILLE NOW) – Blanchfield Army Community Hospital at Fort Campbell announced Tuesday it will now offer the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to children and teens ages 12 and older.
This comes after the Montgomery County Health Department received its approval to begin vaccinating children 12 and up on Friday.
“We are happy to be able to offer vaccines for our 12 to 15 year old beneficiaries,” BACH commander Col. Patrick T. Birchfield said in a news release.
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The COVID vaccine campaign has been compared to a wartime effort but it hits a little different when posters of Rosie the Riveter and Uncle Sam asking people to get their shot are plastered around an Army post like Fort Campbell.
Those who were highly motivated at the post are already fully immunized. The post has vaccinated 23,000 people so far. That’s roughly a third of those who are eligible, counting family members and retirees.
But the rest take varying degrees of convincing, says Col. Patrick Birchfield, commander of Blanchfield Army Community Hospital at Fort Campbell.