Command Master Chief Robert Beachy, Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka’s (CFAY) command master chief, receives his flu shot from Hospitalman Matthew Miranda, assigned to Naval Medical Readiness...
The COVID-19 virus hasn’t gone away. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), viruses like COVID-19 constantly change through mutation. Sometimes these mutations result in a new variant of the virus, such as the Omicron variant.
The Air Force will soon have the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine available after the U.S Food and Drug Administration authorized it for emergency use and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed it as another primary series option for adults ages 18 years and older.
Yoko-pon, Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka's (CFAY) mascot, meets with children about to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination at Sullivans Elementary School during a vaccination event for children aged 5-11.
The Military Health System is poised to offer COVID-19 vaccinations to children ages 5 through 11 years following issuance of an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) to Pfizer-BioNTech for its COVID-19 vaccine by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
A U.S. Marine assigned to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni receives the flu vaccine during Exercise Active Shield at MCAS Iwakuni, Japan, Oct. 27, 2021.
If you're in the military, should you get the vaccine for Human Papillomavirus (HPV) if you haven't already?
The evidence says YES - and the sooner, the better.
Cmdr. Terry McNamara, chief staff officer for Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY) receives his one-shot Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine from Mercedes Fritz, a residency nurse with American Red Cross Yokosuka
“I-L-I reported in compartment three tack, one eight zero tack, zero tack, quebec. Away the COVID response team away. All hands not involved stand clear.”
While the Military Health System continues to support the development and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to counter the ongoing public health threat of the disease, it’s investing in other efforts to counter the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Marines, Sailors, and civilians at Combined Arms Training Center Camp Fuji lined up for, what was for most, their first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, February 18, Gotemba, Japan.
You’re pregnant, or you’re breastfeeding. Should you get a COVID-19 vaccine? That’s a question on the minds of many military frontline health care workers today.
Moving hundreds of thousands of COVID-19 vaccines to more than 300 military bases at home and abroad is a monumental task, especially when the supply of the vaccines is still in the early stage.
