Since the Defense Department began receiving doses in December, more than 389,000 doses have been given to personnel, according to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. The Defense Department has received more than 794,000 doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine but only about half of them have been administered, defense officials said Thursday. Since the Defense Department began receiving doses in December, more than 389,000 doses have been given to personnel, according to the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. The doses have been provided to 306 department sites, Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul Friedrichs, the Joint Staff surgeon, said Thursday during a news conference at the Pentagon. Though Friedrichs did not say why half of the department’s allocated doses remain unused, he acknowledged the vaccines received during the last two weeks have been administered.
