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Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, the Army’s largest<br />
overseas hospital, has administered about 11,000 boosters<br />
and started partnering with the 21st Theater Sustainment<br />
Command and the 30th Medical Brigade to add booster<br />
vaccine appointments, Mattorano said.<br />
On Monday, Ramstein Air Base opened more booster<br />
appointments Friday for its last scheduled vaccination<br />
clinic before the holidays.<br />
By the end of the day Monday, time slots for all of the<br />
approximately 600 sessions were gone, according to an<br />
online appointment site.<br />
For the four vaccination clinics scheduled at Ramstein in<br />
January, only one time slot on Jan. 7 was still available as<br />
of Tuesday morning.<br />
Ramstein medics have administered about 2,200 booster<br />
vaccines, both Moderna and Pfizer, base spokesman Lt.<br />
Col. Will Powell said in a statement Monday.<br />
“The process remains fluid,” he said. “As cancellations<br />
occur, appointments open up.”<br />
Most bases are using the Defense Health Agency’s<br />
online portal for appointments. It allows people to make<br />
more than one appointment for the same shot. Military<br />
officials said it’s important for users to cancel previous<br />
appointments and not double-book.<br />
However, there is no penalty for neglecting to cancel<br />
previous appointments, and it is permissible to make<br />
multiple appointments simultaneously to accommodate<br />
other family members.<br />
In some German states, including Rheinland-Pfalz, home<br />
to tens of thousands of U.S. personnel, a booster shot<br />
negates vaccinated individuals’ testing requirement for<br />
indoor dining and other activities.<br />
Germany’s new government is looking at applying that<br />
exemption across the nation to encourage more booster<br />
shots and relieve testing capacity.<br />
Booster shots for people ages 16 and 17 are still hard<br />
to get, depending on location. The Centers for Disease<br />
Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug<br />
Administration recently approved boosters for older<br />
teens.<br />
LRMC was showing available booster appointments for<br />
ages 16 and up for Jan. 6. Other Army bases were also<br />
offering the booster to older teens, Mattorano said.<br />
Ramstein officials said Monday that they are awaiting<br />
official guidance from the Air Force on when to begin<br />
offering the booster to 16- and 17-year-olds.<br />
At Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany, health officials<br />
“are exploring options” for making booster shots available<br />
to 16- and 17-year-olds, 1st Lt. Megan Morrissey, a<br />
spokeswoman for the 52nd Fighter Wing, said in a<br />
statement Tuesday.<br />
U.S. Navy officials did not respond by deadline about<br />
their efforts to provide booster shots to their personnel<br />
in Europe.
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