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Coronavirus | COVID-19 Updates

  • Army Spc. Nestor Berrios adheres a Band Aid to someone's arm after administering the COVID vaccine at the California State University Los Angeles Community Vaccination Center, Feb. 27, 2021. (Capt. Daniel Parker/Army)
    Pentagon to help stand up 10 more COVID mass vaccination sites, mission could last much of 2021

    A total of 35 FEMA-backed sites are either up and running or in the works.

    Meghann Myers
    2 days ago
  • Hospitalman Cheyenne Bostick, assigned to amphibious transport dock San Diego, prepares to administer COVID-19 vaccines to sailors assigned to the guided-missile cruiser Philippine Sea in Manama, Bahrain, March 2. (MC3 Dawson Roth/Navy)
    Navy vaccinating crews of two COVID-stricken ships in Bahrain

    Twenty sailors each aboard the amphibious transport dock San Diego and the guided-missile cruiser Philippine Sea tested positive and have been quarantined.

    Geoff Ziezulewicz
    2 days ago
  • The Air Force announced it is delaying resuming physical fitness assessments until July. (Master Sgt. Efrain Gonzalez/Air Force)
    Air Force postpones physical fitness tests to July

    Details of the new PFT scoring system are expected to be released in June..

    Diana Stancy Correll
    2 days ago
  • A man walks past a
    Veterans unemployment remains flat as pandemic enters its second year

    The unemployment rate for all veterans in February was 5.5 percent, the same as in January,

    Leo Shane III
    2 days ago
  • Spc. Elayna Luckey prepares a dose of COVID-19 vaccine Jan. 5, 2021, in Austin, Texas., Vaccines were being administered to National Guard soldiers preparing for deployment at Camp Mabry. (Andrew Smith/Texas Military Department)
    COVID shots may be widely available to military families in April

    Fauci says high school-age children may be able to get the COVID-19 vaccination sometime in the fall.

    Karen Jowers
    3 days ago
  • A staffer at the VA Caribbean Healthcare System in San Juan, Puerto Rico, checks the temperature of an incoming visitor during a coronavirus symptoms check on March 19, 2020. (1st Sgt. Rodolfo Armando Barrios Quinones/Army)
    By the numbers: VA’s coronavirus response one year later

    On March 4, 2020, VA officials announced their first recorded case of coronavirus in a patient from California. Since then, hundreds of thousands more have contracted the illness.

    Leo Shane III
    4 days ago
  • Acting VA Under Secretary for Health Dr. Richard Stone (right) helps administer a coronavirus vaccine dose to a local resident during a mass vaccination event at the Yonkers Armory in New York on March 3, 2021. The event was part of VA's Fourth Mission responsibilities to provide backup medical care to local communities. (Photo courtesy of VA)
    VA’s next medical challenge: catching up on millions of missed veterans’ appointments

    The department has delayed or cancelled more than 19 million medical appointments over the last year, but hopes to reschedule them in the months ahead.

    Leo Shane III
    4 days ago
  • A social distancing sign is seen on the floor as a midshipman walks to class at Luce Hall at the U.S. Naval Academy, Aug. 24, 2020, in Annapolis, Md. (Julio Cortez/AP)
    More Naval Academy midshipmen being moved into hotels amid COVID-19 outbreak

    Nearly 200 students have been moved into Annapolis hotels this week for quarantine and isolation, academy officials said.

    Geoff Ziezulewicz
    4 days ago
  • Hospitalman Bianca Lavagesse, right, assigned to Naval Health Clinic Annapolis, administers an influenza vaccination to Midshipman Alexander Krupinsky on Oct. 16, 2020, during an U.S. Naval Academy influenza vaccination exercise. (Lt. Thomas Hurtado/Navy)
    Naval Academy seeks to vaccinate midshipmen for summer training

    If the vaccines are available, the midshipmen would be the first military academy students to receive the COVID-19 shots.

    Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
    5 days ago
  • Second set detailers take over the training of Midshipmen 4th Class, or plebes, on Aug. 1, 2020, at the United States Naval Academy, marking the halfway point of Plebe Summer, a demanding indoctrination period intended to transition the candidates from civilian to military life. (Navy)
    Nearly 100 US Naval Academy midshipmen moved off campus after testing positive for COVID-19

    The school is also rolling out a raft of measures to help curb the novel coronavirus' spread in the Brigade of Midshipmen.

    Geoff Ziezulewicz
    5 days ago
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