All veterans and their spouses can get vaccinated at the VA. Here's how

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All veterans and their spouses are eligible to get vaccinated for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) through the Department of Veterans Affairs, and based on multiple first-hand accounts from veterans, many of them are getting same-week appointments.

As the country’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts continue to ramp up, we here at Task & Purpose have been seeing a lot of vets on social media talking about the vaccine and how they got it. For many it seemed to be as simple as picking up the phone:

VETERANS, YOU HAVE NO EXCUSE. GET YOUR SHOT. After waiting on hold with the DC VA for less than 10 minutes, I have a Thursday appointment to get my first shot. https://t.co/ds08iAqrvA

— Brian Wagner (@BrianBWagner) March 30, 2021

That tweet is far from the only one, with many other veterans taking to Twitter to share not only that they got an appointment for a vaccine, but to walk others through how they did it. A quick tally of veterans at Task & Purpose revealed much the same, with one veteran calling his local VA clinic in Shiloh, Illinois and getting an appointment there; and another signing up with the VA to get an update on when a vaccination appointment was available, and then getting a text that he had an appointment the following Monday at the VA Medical Center in Long Beach, California.


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