More than 2.7 million veterans across the country have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)—including more than 113,000 in New York State alone. And the picture is looking brighter: for the first time in 14 months, VA had its first 24 hours without a COVID-related patient death in May. But the vaccination rate represents only a small percentage of the 19 million veterans in the United States, more than half of whom are not eligible for VA health care or choose not to use it.
Please join NYHealth for a webinar with Dr. Kavita Patel, a VA-trained primary care physician and Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution, on the vaccine rollout in the veteran community. She will discuss whether current efforts are sufficient, what options veterans have when seeking out a vaccine, and hesitancy in the military and veteran communities, as well as what else needs to be done to ensure our veteran community is safe from this evolving global pandemic.