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Victory for Veterans, Inc. information for RallyPoint Members, Connections, and Friends! Here is some great Information from our very own Veteran Advocate Harriet Nix for Rapid COVID Testing for Veterans. Click on the link for the Victory for Veterans, Inc Blog or READ below... Please share this information with others across your social media outlets...
The Veterans Affairs Mission Act became law on June 6, 2019. Whereas this Act provided easier access to care for routine medical issues, the information about the details has not been broadly or effectively explained or provided to most Veterans. This new program allows Veterans who are enrolled in the VA Health Care System, and who have visited a VA doctor, or a Primary Care Physician under the VA Choice Program, to see an Urgent Care doctor at no charge, under certain circumstances.
Veterans in Priority Groups 1 to 5, as well as some Veterans in Priority Group 6, can visit an authorized Urgent Care Center with no cost, up to three times every year. After that, each visit will cost $30. Veterans in Priority Groups 7 and 8 will have a $30 co-payment for each visit.
Veterans wishing to be tested for COVID-19, may do so at an authorized Urgent Care Center in their locality. Inform the staff, that you are requesting A COVID Rapid Test. Results are usually obtained in one hour.
The facility will make a phone call to verify eligibility. It’s as simple as that. Going through the Primary Care Physician will cause unnecessary delays.
COL (Ret) Mikel Burroughs, Chairman, Victory for Veterans, Inc.
The Veterans Affairs Mission Act became law on June 6, 2019. Whereas this Act provided easier access to care for routine medical issues, the information about the details has not been broadly or effectively explained or provided to most Veterans. This new program allows Veterans who are enrolled in the VA Health Care System, and who have visited a VA doctor, or a Primary Care Physician under the VA Choice Program, to see an Urgent Care doctor at no charge, under certain circumstances.
Veterans in Priority Groups 1 to 5, as well as some Veterans in Priority Group 6, can visit an authorized Urgent Care Center with no cost, up to three times every year. After that, each visit will cost $30. Veterans in Priority Groups 7 and 8 will have a $30 co-payment for each visit.
Veterans wishing to be tested for COVID-19, may do so at an authorized Urgent Care Center in their locality. Inform the staff, that you are requesting A COVID Rapid Test. Results are usually obtained in one hour.
The facility will make a phone call to verify eligibility. It’s as simple as that. Going through the Primary Care Physician will cause unnecessary delays.
COL (Ret) Mikel Burroughs, Chairman, Victory for Veterans, Inc.
Rapid COVID Testing for Veterans
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Taiwan which has a population of 24 million has about 10 COVID deaths. What are the key tasks they accomplished? They tested everyone entering the country and they have a robust contact tracing program.
Let's examine the US testing program. We had faulty tests and it took a bit of time to make effective tests and get it approved by the FDA. The pandemic response was one failure after another.
Let's examine the US testing program. We had faulty tests and it took a bit of time to make effective tests and get it approved by the FDA. The pandemic response was one failure after another.
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MAJ Ken Landgren
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SFC Chuck Martinez - Of course there is blood on his hands. Under Trumps leadership the US which has 4% of the world's population but has 20% of the COVID cases and deaths. He lied about the pandemic threat for weeks which prevented the federal government to start early planning and execution of the National Response Plan which is the plan the federal government uses for national disaster preparations, planning, and mitigation. He waited until mid March to call national emergency. By that time COVID was too rampant to slow down in the US. FEMA and DHS were told to start planning in late March.
It was incumbent on the federal government to plan and execute early which they did not. Controlling passengers on flights is absolutely not indicative of robust actions taken by Trump. Robust actions which should be done early entails DHS to provide Task Force leadership to all the Cabinets, Agencies, and DOD. Robust and early actions means standing up a national testing plan, providing PPEs to states, starting contact tracing, and support states and hospitals might need. Trump and his administration started this process in late March. By that time the pandemic was too large to manage. In the grand scheme of things the US went weeks into the pandemic without a requisite and comprehensive plan for weeks. It was such an utter failure that doctors and nurses had to wash PPEs for weeks because the the administration did not plan on supplying them early to hospitals.
Now I will expound on a country that had early robust planning and execution. South Korea with a population of 52 million planned and executed a country-wide testing program and contact tracing in February. It has 722 deaths to date. If you adjust that figure to the US population it would be 4,600 deaths, but we have 300,000 + deaths. Like I said, the US essentially did not start planning until late March. If South Korea has the same population as the US, we would have 295,400 more deaths than they do at this point in time. That delta is huge and horrific.
It was incumbent on the federal government to plan and execute early which they did not. Controlling passengers on flights is absolutely not indicative of robust actions taken by Trump. Robust actions which should be done early entails DHS to provide Task Force leadership to all the Cabinets, Agencies, and DOD. Robust and early actions means standing up a national testing plan, providing PPEs to states, starting contact tracing, and support states and hospitals might need. Trump and his administration started this process in late March. By that time the pandemic was too large to manage. In the grand scheme of things the US went weeks into the pandemic without a requisite and comprehensive plan for weeks. It was such an utter failure that doctors and nurses had to wash PPEs for weeks because the the administration did not plan on supplying them early to hospitals.
Now I will expound on a country that had early robust planning and execution. South Korea with a population of 52 million planned and executed a country-wide testing program and contact tracing in February. It has 722 deaths to date. If you adjust that figure to the US population it would be 4,600 deaths, but we have 300,000 + deaths. Like I said, the US essentially did not start planning until late March. If South Korea has the same population as the US, we would have 295,400 more deaths than they do at this point in time. That delta is huge and horrific.
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SFC Chuck Martinez
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Ken, I will have to have a chat with my Genie to reply to your post. if I can find the bottle of Vodka I put her in!! :>)
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Cpl Vic Burk
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We could take a lesson from this about contact tracing. At the school I teach at while we were in the classroom we had a contact tracing program. A student came down with the virus administration came to the classroom with a measuring tape. Anyone sitting with six feet for fifteen minutes was put on immediate quarantine.
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Be Safe this season so we'll be here next year together
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