Posted on 12/16/2020 8:46:13 AM PST by BeauBo
Within about three hours of the first shipments of the coronavirus vaccine arriving Monday morning at Joint Base San Antonio, Maj. Andrew Gausepohl became the base’s first military health care worker to receive the injection...
The Defense Department’s initial allocation of the vaccine is 43,875 doses, Army Lt. Gen. Ronald J. Place, director of the Defense Health Agency, said last week. Each of the initial 16 U.S.-based military sites included in the first round of distribution has more than 1,000 people who are in the top priority group to receive vaccines, such as health care workers. Once the Defense Department proves their distribution process works with the initial sites, they will begin sending the vaccine to hundreds of other locations in the United States and around the world, according to Place...
Vaccinations were administered at other facilities Monday, and recipients included acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller, who received the shot at Walter Reed.
Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and combatant commanders were announced as planned recipients of the initial doses, but the Pentagon has not said whether any of them received the vaccine Monday.
Fort Bragg received its first shipment of vaccines at about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday. In less than three hours, Roni Paul, an emergency room nurse at the base’s Womack Army Medical Center, received the first inoculation of the vaccine there...
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Following Gausepohl’s vaccination, the medical facility continued to vaccinate health care workers and first responders throughout Monday afternoon, as recommended through guidelines from the Defense Department and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Following those populations, the Pentagon will then begin vaccinating those who are part of “critical national capabilities,” such as sailors on nuclear submarines, cyber security personnel and defense leaders.
Personnel preparing to deploy within three months will be the next population to receive the vaccine and then all other critical and essential support personnel.
The next stage of vaccine recipients for the Defense Department includes high-risk beneficiaries, such as residents at the military retirement homes, and then the remaining healthy population, according to the department.
The San Antonio employees vaccinated first were pulled from several departments to stagger any potential side effects caused by the injection. Each recipient will continue to be monitored and, so far, Gausepohl said he’s only experienced minor pain where the shot was administered. Now, he looks forward to seeing his family without fear that he is bringing the virus home from work.
It’s unclear when the average, healthy servicemember could be eligible for vaccination, but DeGoes said he doesn’t foresee this happening before March.
The article also reports:
“In the United States, vaccines were also shipped to Darnall Army Medical Center, Fort Hood, Texas; Madigan Army Medical Center, Joint Base Lewis McChord, Wash.; Womack Army Medical Center, Fort Bragg, N.C.; Navy Branch Health Clinic, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Fla.; Base Alameda Health Services, U.S. Coast Guard Base, Alameda, Calif.; Naval Medical Center, San Diego; Naval Hospital, Camp Pendleton, Calif.; Naval Hospital Pensacola, Fla.; Armed Forces Retirement Home, Gulfport, Miss.; Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Md.; Armed Forces Retirement Home, Washington, D.C.; Portsmouth Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, Va.; U.S. Coast Guard Base Clinic, Portsmouth, Va.; Indiana National Guard, Franklin, Ind., and New York National Guard Medical Command, Watervliet, N.Y.
Locations outside the continental United States expecting vaccines in the first round are Allgood Army Community Hospital, Camp Humphreys, South Korea; Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany; Kadena Medical Facility, Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, and Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu.
Is the COVID vaccine just one shot?
I read a story about ‘the second injection’ being a lot more difficult than the first.
There must be bodies everywhere.
Heads up to any mass media types out there—if you report on any negative side effects from the vaccine you will be fired and your career is over.
The vaccine is a two shot series.
The second shot does seem to fever, headache and other side effects, all are tied to your body producing an immune response. IOW it shows the vaccine is working to produce the desired protection.
Are the military REQUIRED to take these shots? I would hope there are options to opt out.
Somehow, I don’t think that’s how the Army works. You get an order, you carry it out!
Required.
Why would you want to forgo it?
They’re mostly young and fit. No reason to have issues like last year’s aircraft carrier that couldn’t deploy.
It’d be a real crapper IF they found out it made em all sterile or something....
“Is the COVID vaccine just one shot?”
Some are, and others require two.
The Phizer vaccine that is now being distributed, requires two shots. So does the Moderna vaccine, expected to be approved later this week.
The second shot is administered three weeks after the first. After the first shot, immunity is in about 50% of recipients, a week after the second dose (as studied), about 95% are immune.
Some of the other vaccines in the pipeline, that might get approved in January or February, are tested on the basis of one shot (Johnson & Johnson, Astra Zeneca) but may not be as effective.
50% effective was the minimum acceptable standard for for Operation Warp Speed.
“It’d be a real crapper IF they found out it made em all sterile or something....”
One risk that has occurred in the past, is that a vaccine could make people a bit hyper-sensitive to the pathogen, so that their immune response goes into dangerous overdrive, the next time they are infected (Cytokine storm).
Any Paulistas notice who got the first shot at Ft. Bragg?
Roni Paul
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