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VA Starts COVID-19 Vaccinations At Many Locations
VA News Release
December 21, 2020
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) will begin COVID-19 vaccinations this week at 128 additional sites using the Moderna and Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines.
On December 18, 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an Emergency Use Authorization of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, which is the second COVID-19 vaccine to be authorized.
Per Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations, VA will continue to vaccinate health care personnel, as well as community living center and spinal cord unit residents. As vaccine supplies increase, VA’s ultimate goal is to offer COVID-19 vaccinations to all Veterans and employees who want to be vaccinated.
113 VA Medical Centers (VAMCs) and outpatient clinics will receive limited Moderna COVID-19 vaccine supplies this week. They include:
Alabama
- Central Alabama (Montgomery) VA Health Care System
- Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center
Alaska
- Alaska (Anchorage) VA Health Care System
Arizona
- Northern Arizona (Prescott) VA Health Care System
- Southern Arizona (Tucson) VA Health Care System
Arkansas
- Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks (Fayetteville)
- Central Arkansas (North Little Rock) Veterans Health Care System
California
- Central California (Fresno) VA Health Care System
- Northern California (Mather) VA Health Care System
- San Francisco VA Medical Center
- Long Beach VA Health Care System
- Loma Linda VA Health Care System
- San Diego VA Health Care System
Colorado
- Grand Junction VA Medical Center
Delaware
- Wilmington VA Medical Center
Florida
- Lee County VA Health Care Center
- Jacksonville VA Outpatient Clinic
- Sergeant Ernest I. “Boots” Thomas (Tallahassee) VA Outpatient Clinic
- The Villages VA Outpatient Clinic
- New Port Richey VA Outpatient Clinic
- William V. Chappell, Jr. (Daytona Beach) VA Outpatient Clinic
- William “Bill” Kling (Sunrise) VA Outpatient Clinic
- South Hillsborough (Riverview) VA Outpatient Clinic
- Viera VA Outpatient Clinic
Georgia
- Atlanta VA Medical Center
- Carl Vinson (Dublin) VA Medical Center
Hawaii
- Pacific Islands (Honolulu) VA Health Care System
Idaho
- Boise VA Medical Center
Illinois
- Capt. James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center (North Chicago)
- Jesse Brown (Chicago) VA Medical Center
- Iliana (Danville) VA Health Care System
- Marion VA Medical Center
Indiana
- Indianapolis VA Medical Center
- Marion VA Medical Center
Iowa
- Central Iowa (Des Moines) VA Health Care System
- Iowa City VA Health Care System
Kansas
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (Leavenworth) VA Medical Center
- Colmery-O’Neil (Topeka) VA Medical Center
- Robert J. Dole (Wichita) VA Medical Center
Kentucky
- Louisville VA Medical Center
Louisiana
- Alexandria (Pineville) VA Medical Center
- Overton Brooks (Shreveport) VA Medical Center
Maine
- Maine (Augusta) VA Health Care System
Massachusetts
- Boston (Jamaica Plain) VA Health Care System
- Northampton (Leeds) VA Medical Center
Michigan
- Battle Creek VA Medical Center
- Detroit VA Medical Center
- Saginaw VA Medical Center
- Iron Mountain VA Medical Center
Minnesota
- St. Cloud VA Medical Center
Mississippi
- G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery (Jackson) VA Medical Center
- Gulf Coast (Biloxi) VA Health Care System
Missouri
- Poplar Bluff VA Medical Center
- Kansas City VA Medical Center
Montana
- Montana (Fort Harrison) VA Health Care System
Nevada
- Sierra Nevada (Reno) VA Health Care System
New Hampshire
- Manchester VA Medical Center
New Jersey
- Lyons VA Medical Center
New York
- James J. Peters Bronx VA Medical Center
- Canandaigua VA Medical Center
- Syracuse VA Medical Center
- Albany VA Medical Center
- Castle Point (Wappingers Falls) VA Medical Center
- Northport VA Medical Center
North Carolina
- Asheville VA Medical Center
- South Charlotte VA Health Care Center
- Fayetteville VA Medical Center
- Raeford Road (Fayetteville) VA Outpatient Clinic
- Greenville VA Health Care Center
- Kernersville VA Health Care Center
- Wilmington VA Health Care Center
North Dakota
- Fargo VA Medical Center
Ohio
- Chillicothe VA Medical Center
- Cincinnati VA Medical Center
- Dayton VA Medical Center
- Columbus VA Ambulatory Care Center
Oklahoma
- Eastern Oklahoma (Muskogee) VA Health Care System
Oregon
- Roseburg VA Health Care System
- Southern Oregon Rehabilitation Center & Clinics (White City)
Pennsylvania
- Altoona VA Medical Center
- Butler VA Medical Center
- Coatesville VA Medical Center
- Erie VA Medical Center
- Lebanon VA Medical Center
- Wilkes-Barre VA Medical Center
Puerto Rico
- Mayaguez VA Outpatient Clinic
- Euripides Rubio (Ponce) VA Outpatient Clinic
Rhode Island
- Providence VA Medical Center
South Carolina
- Charleston VA Medical Center
- Columbia VA Medical Center
South Dakota
- Sioux Falls VA Medical Center
- Black Hills (Fort Meade) VA Health Care System
Tennessee
- Tennessee Valley (Murfreesboro) VA Health Care System
- Mountain Home VA Health Care System
Texas
- Amarillo (West Amarillo) VA Health Care System
- West Texas (Big Spring) VA Health Care System
- Central Texas (Temple) VA Health Care System
- Texas Valley Coastal (Harlingen) VA Health Care System
- El Paso VA Health Care System
Utah
- Salt Lake City VA Health Care System
Vermont
- White River Junction VA Medical Center
Virginia
- Hampton VA Medical Center
- Salem VA Medical Center
Washington
- Spokane VA Medical Center
- Walla Walla VA Medical Center
West Virginia
- Beckley VA Medical Center
- Clarksburg VA Medical Center
- Huntington VA Medical Center
- Martinsburg VA Medical Center
Wisconsin
- Madison VA Hospital
- Tomah VA Medical Center
Wyoming
- Cheyenne VA Medical Center
- Sheridan VA Medical Center
The Moderna COVID-19 vaccine was 94 percent effective in preventing COVID-19 disease based on scientific data presented at FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biologics Advisory Committee on December 17. The vaccine is administered in two doses, 28 days apart. The side effects appear similar to those of other vaccines and are short-lived.
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