INDIANAPOLIS – Starting today, nearly 100,000 Defense Department family members and dependents who are enrolled in the military health care program called TRICARE qualify to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from the Indiana National Guard.
The Indiana National Guard will continue to vaccinate service members and now family members and dependents who are enrolled in TRICARE at the Johnson County Armory in Franklin, today, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday from 8 a.m. to noon, but times may adjust as demand dictates. Throughout the Hoosier state, the Indiana National Guard could vaccinate approximately 98,000 people, and nearly a third of those live within 40 miles of the armory.
Eligible personnel, their family members and dependents, age 16 and older, may now schedule an appointment for vaccination through the National Guard program at https://www.in.gov/ago/contact/schedule-covid-19-vaccination-appointment/, calling the Indiana National Guard COVID-19 Vaccine Call Center at 317-247-3226, or emailing ng.in.inarng.mbx.covidvax@mail.mil.
“Our Indiana National Guard healthcare providers remain committed to providing our DoD allotment of COVID-19 vaccine to all service members and eligible DoD beneficiaries in the shortest time possible to protect them from coronavirus disease,” said 1st Sgt. Ryan Richmond, the Indiana National Guard’s medical branch noncommissioned officer in charge. “Our expansion into these populations facilitates our collective response efforts.”
The Defense Department allotment of vaccine to the Indiana National Guard is in addition to the weekly vaccination allocation the Indiana Department of Health receives.
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