{"id":5285,"date":"2021-02-13T20:13:55","date_gmt":"2021-02-13T20:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/?p=5285"},"modified":"2021-02-13T20:13:58","modified_gmt":"2021-02-13T20:13:58","slug":"maryland-national-guard-vaccinates-over-25000-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/2021\/02\/13\/maryland-national-guard-vaccinates-over-25000-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland National Guard vaccinates over 25,000 citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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BALTIMORE (February 12, 2021) \u2014Maryland National Guard members have administered more than 25,000 Covid-19 vaccine shots to Maryland citizens since early January.<\/p>\n

MDNG Soldiers and Airmen working as mobile vaccination support teams have provided continued support to county health departments at sites in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Cecil, Carroll, Charles, Prince George\u2019s, St. Mary\u2019s, and Talbot Counties as well as the city of Baltimore. In addition to administering the vaccine, they have supported patient flow, data entry, and other medical-related tasks.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re part of the community, and we\u2019ll get through this as a community\u2014together,\u201d said Maj. Gen. Timothy Gowen, adjutant general for Maryland. \u201cThis isn\u2019t a mission we would normally expect to be doing, but it\u2019s one we\u2019re well able to handle. It really shows the adaptability of our Citizen-Soldiers and Citizen-Airmen.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In addition to assisting county-level vaccination efforts, the Maryland National Guard is helping operate state mass vaccination sites, including the site at the Six Flags America theme park, which had been operating as a testing site and switched to providing vaccinations on Feb. 5.<\/p>\n

The Maryland National Guard is also at the forefront of helping ensure equitable distribution of the vaccine to all Marylanders.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Recently, Brig. Gen. Janeen Birckhead, assistant adjutant general \u00ac\u2013 Army for the Maryland National Guard, was named by Gov. Larry Hogan to the lead of the state\u2019s Vaccine Equity Task Force. She will help ensure the vaccine is accessible to minorities and other underserved communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The Governor realizes a whole of Maryland response is needed,\u201d said Birckhead. \u201cEvery demographic and every walk of life is included in this endeavor. Maryland will not overcome this unless we all are at our best, and that means vaccine for all who want it. Marylanders helping Marylanders is something the National Guard has always done well, and this is no different when responding to a pandemic.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Col. (Dr.) Eric Allely, MDNG state surgeon, who led the state\u2019s efforts to assist nursing homes coping with the pandemic last year, emphasized the importance of the vaccine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a safe vaccine, and it is the path to taking these masks off and throwing them away,\u201d said Allely. \u201cWe will keep supporting these missions and other mass vaccination sites as long as we are needed.\u201d<\/p>\n

MDNG Soldiers are also supporting local health departments across the state with Covid-19 testing.\u00a0 Guard members have helped the community with more than 20,00 self-swab tests.<\/p>\n

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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:<\/p>\n

Capt. Ben Hughes<\/p>\n

Maryland National Guard Public Affairs Office<\/p>\n

ng.md.mdarng.list.pao@mail.mil<\/p>\n

Phone: 410-576-6179<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BALTIMORE (February 12, 2021) \u2014Maryland National Guard members have administered more than 25,000 Covid-19 vaccine shots to Maryland citizens since early January. MDNG Soldiers and Airmen working as mobile vaccination support teams have provided continued support to county health departments at sites in Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Cecil, Carroll, Charles, Prince George\u2019s, St. Mary\u2019s, and Talbot  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":5290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[907,940,948],"class_list":["post-5285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-media-advisories","tag-mdngcovid19response","tag-mvst","tag-mvsts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5285"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5302,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5285\/revisions\/5302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}