A slide distributed by the Defense Department on Wednesday showing the initial locations for vaccine distribution.
One researcher said that full vaccination might not occur until next spring, based on expected availability to the general U.S. population. “March, April is where the general population,” will be able to access the vaccine Tinglong Dai, an associate professor of operations management and business analytics at Johns Hopkins told Defense One. “That’s probably the point where we start distributing the vaccine to wider society including the military.”
In contrast, Russian media reported this month that the country has already vaccinated some 400,000 military personnel. China approved the use of an experimental vaccine for use in the military in June.
Neither of these vaccines went through an evaluation process as rigorous as the FDA’s so there are some questions about the efficacy and safety of each.
Chief Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman downplayed how the small vaccination numbers among the U.S. military would affect readiness. “We’ve been relatively fortunate. A large number of our forces are in age criteria, health status, where we’ve fared better than others,” he said. “We’re confident, a month, two months, three months, four months, we’re going to be able to move forward with all the DoD missions we’ve been entrusted with, the way we have over the last year in the face of Covid.”
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