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Aug. 14, 2023

Coast Guard announces Return to Service Team initiative

Campaign supports members separated due to COVID-19 vaccination status

Chief Petty Officer Maureen Potratz, a member of the Coast Guard Base Rockmore-King Clinic staff, receives a COVID-19 vaccination shot by Petty Officer 2nd Class Qarina Orlowski, in Kodiak, Alaska, on Jan. 8, 2021. Coast Guard 17th District personnel are working diligently to vaccinate servicemembers to combat the spread of COVID-19. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Capt. Charles Truncale.

Feb. 1, 2022

Getting up-to-date on your COVID-19 vaccine

Boosted means updated on vaccines

Petty Officer 3rd Class Amber Degouveia, a health series technician assigned to Coast Guard Base Alameda Medical, administers the intranasal flu vaccine to a Coast Guard member while at the Base Alameda clinic Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015. To maintain mission readiness, Coast Guard personnel are required to receive the annual influenza vaccine during the required vaccination period. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 2nd Class Barry Bena)

Sept. 20, 2021

It’s time for your flu vaccine

Subhead: Flu vaccinations now available through Coast Guard clinics and private care providers

This illustration, created at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), reveals ultrastructural morphology exhibited by coronaviruses.

Aug. 27, 2021

COVID-19 vaccine mandated for all military members

All unvaccinated military members need to get vaccinated against COVID-19 without delay.

Aug. 9, 2021

DHS experts host live virtual vaccine Q&A

Session will cover common questions like, How was the vaccine developed so quickly? Is it dangerous?

Chief Petty Officer Mary Zepeda is administered the first coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination at Base Alameda medical clinic in Alameda, Calif., Dec. 16, 2020. Coast Guard efforts to vaccinate its workforce, in collaboration with DoD, will be complementary to a parallel effort by states, territories, and localities, as vaccine supply allows. U.S. Coast Guard photos by Chief Petty Officer Matt Masaschi.

July 27, 2021

Defeat COVID-19’s surging counterattack: Vaccination is our best weapon

Vaccination is our best defense against COVID-19

A Coast Guard Base Kodiak Rockmore-King Clinic staff member administers a COVID-19 vaccination to a service member, in Kodiak, Alaska, on March 16, 2021. Coast Guard 17th District personnel are working diligently to vaccinate servicemembers to help combat the spread of COVID-19. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Ali Blackburn.

June 30, 2021

COVID Vaccine: Almost to 70%

Only 911 more to reach our goal!

Coast Guard 13th District personnel receive COVID-19 vaccine

April 21, 2021

Coast Guard surpasses 50% fully vaccinated

Full speed ahead to restore readiness

Coast Guard service members receive their initial dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at U.S. Coast Guard Training Center Cape May, N.J., Jan. 8, 2021.

March 15, 2021

Civilian detail - deadline NOON today

The Department of Homeland Security established Operation Vaccinate Our Workforce (VOW) to work across the Department to facilitate the voluntary vaccination of frontline employees. This team has since increased the number of vaccinations, vaccination sites across the country and information available for Components and leadership regarding DHS’

Coast Guard members fly COVID-19 vaccines around the West Coast using a C-27 Spartan aircraft in Alameda, Calif. February 18. 2021. Coast Guard Base Alameda, in the San Francisco Bay Area, is the only Coast Guard medical facility on the West Coast capable of storing the Pfizer vaccines at their necessary temperatures of -60C to -80C. (U.S. Coast Guard photo released)

March 9, 2021

Operation Honey Bee: The Coast Guard is flying COVID vaccines

The Eleventh Coast Guard District has been getting creative in distributing vaccines throughout the Pacific Area.