by Christian Southards | Feb 5, 2021
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced in a Feb. 2 press release that over 1M total doses of either the Pfizer-BioNtech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine had been administered to date. The VA says that for veterans, 44,000 had received a full vaccine while...
by Christian Southards | Jan 18, 2021
Some 81 percent of veterans living at the West Los Angeles CalVet home were given a COVID-19 vaccination last week, according to an internal California Department of Veterans Affairs email circulated Wednesday. The facility administered the vaccine between Jan. 9 and...
by Minority Health Institute and UCLA BRITE Center | Jan 14, 2021
Minority Health Institute and UCLA BRITE Center for Science, Research and Policy invite you to attend a virtual town hall with some of the nations’ premier COVID-19 experts and historically Black institution and organization leaders to address facts, fears and...
by Christian Southards | Jan 8, 2021
On Jan. 6, the Department of Veterans Affairs announced in a press release that its Digital Divide Consult program has provided internet access or video-enabled devices to over 12,000 veterans in the United States—to include California veterans—in need of telehealth...
by Christian Southards | Jan 4, 2021
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced Wednesday that it had issued at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to over 50,000 health care workers and 5,000 long-term care patients since Dec. 14 at 165 sites, including eight in California. However, the VA has yet to...
