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- VA announces initial plans for COVID-19 vaccine distribution
- VA guarantees more than 1 million home loans in record year
- VA offers debt relief to Veterans through year’s end
- NYC VA helps care for remaining patients from USNS Comfort
- Timeline on how VA prepared for COVID-19 outbreak, continues to keep Veterans safe
- VA deploys Mobile Vet Center units to increase outreach during COVID-19 outbreak
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Initial COVID-19 vaccine supplies are limited and first being offered to health care personnel. As the supply increases, care teams will contact Veterans receiving care at VA about their options.
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1-800-MyVA411 (1-800-698-2411) is available 24 hours-a-day, 365 day-a-year to connect Veterans, their families, caregivers, and survivors with VA.
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On this week’s episode of Borne the Battle, Navy Veteran and stroke survivor Dave Hume shares the journey of how he went from only expressing three words after his stroke to writing his own blog and becoming a motivational speaker.
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VA diagnoses 7,700 Veterans with lung cancer each year and an estimated 900,000 remain at risk due to age, smoking and other environmental exposures during and after military service.
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VA’s Center for Women Veterans (CWV) is seeking nominees for the 2021 Women Veterans Trailblazers Initiative 2.0.
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VA today announced a preliminary plan for distributing the COVID-19 vaccinations it will implement once the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issues an emergency use authorization for a vaccine.
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