Blanchfield Army Community Hospital officials are beginning the process of rolling out vaccines on Fort Campbell to frontline military and civilian healthcare workers.
According to a news release, in line with CDC guidelines, military and civilian healthcare workers and support personnel at Blanchfield directly involved in the hospital’s COVID response and who are at the greatest risk of contracting the virus will be vaccinated first. Vaccines authorized for emergency use are offered on a voluntary basis. As manufacturing and distribution of the approved vaccine ramps up, Blanchfield, and other medical treatment facilities across the military health system will receive additional shipments.
Exact dates and numbers for when the hospital will receive more shipments of the COVID-19 vaccine have not yet been determined. In the meantime, Birchfield stressed the continued mitigation efforts which are critical to help reduce the current spike in many parts of the nation, including Tennessee which recently topped the nation with the most daily cases per 100,000 people.