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By WILLIAM COLE | The Honolulu Star-Advertiser | Published: January 6, 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. HONOLULU (Tribune News Service) Hundreds of Hawaii National Guard personnel with the joint task force responding to COVID-19 are getting vaccinated, with some on neighbor islands receiving the Pfizer vaccine Tuesday from the back of a C-17 cargo aircraft during a brief stop. These are all people who were activated to support the state coronavirus effort, said Hawaii Guard spokesman Jeff Hickman.
Air Force C-17 delivers vaccinations to National Guard troops [The Honolulu Star-Advertiser]
Jan. 6 Hundreds of Hawaii National Guard personnel with the joint task force responding to COVID-19 are getting vaccinated, with some on neighbor islands receiving the Pfizer vaccine Tuesday from the back of a C-17 cargo aircraft during a brief stop.
“These are all people who were activated to support the state ” coronavirus effort, said Hawaii Guard spokesman Jeff Hickman.
The C-17 out of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam also crewed by Hawaii Guard members stopped on Hawaii island, Kauai and Maui on Tuesday with medical teams on board to vaccinate those among the 150 to 200 joint task force members on each of the neighbor islands.
Hundreds of activated Hawaii National Guard personnel with the joint task force responding to COVID-19 are getting vaccinated, with some on neighbor islands receiving the Pfizer vaccine today from the back of a C-17 cargo aircraft.