Posted on Apr 12, 2021
Frustration grows at US military bases overseas over slow pace of vaccine rollout
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Many members of the American military and their family members stationed outside the US are growing increasingly frustrated at the pace of the coronavirus vaccine rollout on overseas bases which is lagging behind the continental US.
Military families based in Europe are fully reliant on military health clinics at their bases to receive vaccines. They are not able to receive doses in the countries they are living in, and European Union countries are behind the US in the number of vaccines distributed to their citizens at this point.
"We're a bit stranded over here," Emily Starbuck Gerson, a military spouse based at Royal Air Force Lakenheath Air Force Base in England, said. "The UK and Europe has been much stricter in how they handled COVID, so a lot of us has been under these onerous lockdowns ... we're already so far from our support system and loved ones and navigating a global pandemic while living abroad ... so then not being able to access a vaccine on top of that is difficult."
Defense Health Agency Director Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Place said that the Department of Defense will open vaccine appointments to "all tiers" on April 19, which is consistent when President Joe Biden has said all adult Americans will be eligible to be vaccinated.
Military families based in Europe are fully reliant on military health clinics at their bases to receive vaccines. They are not able to receive doses in the countries they are living in, and European Union countries are behind the US in the number of vaccines distributed to their citizens at this point.
"We're a bit stranded over here," Emily Starbuck Gerson, a military spouse based at Royal Air Force Lakenheath Air Force Base in England, said. "The UK and Europe has been much stricter in how they handled COVID, so a lot of us has been under these onerous lockdowns ... we're already so far from our support system and loved ones and navigating a global pandemic while living abroad ... so then not being able to access a vaccine on top of that is difficult."
Defense Health Agency Director Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Place said that the Department of Defense will open vaccine appointments to "all tiers" on April 19, which is consistent when President Joe Biden has said all adult Americans will be eligible to be vaccinated.
Frustration grows at US military bases overseas over slow pace of vaccine rollout
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Clearly we need to get more vaccine to our overseas medical facilities. And since a number of military have decided not to get the vaccine, how about making it available to dependents
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1/3 of service members have declined the opportunity to get vaccinated. Seems once the FDA give a vaccine its blessing curious if making it mandatory will speed things up in doing mass rolling ordered vaccinations.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/03/01/military-may-revisit-making-covid-19-vaccines-mandatory-after-fda-grants-approval.html
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2021/03/01/military-may-revisit-making-covid-19-vaccines-mandatory-after-fda-grants-approval.html
Military May Revisit Making COVID-19 Vaccines Mandatory After FDA Grants Approval
Military leaders are unable to force service members to get the COVID vaccinations at this time.
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CSM Darieus ZaGara
Unless I am not understanding your note, the FDA has not approved any of the vaccines, they are all under EUA. If I misunderstood and we are saying the same thing, my apologies.
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