COVID-19

Local PVA Executive Director and Veteran Brent King honored the Spokane VA with a special, personal tribute: “Stood tall even when exhausted.”

VA researchers are studying the safety and effectiveness of 3D-printed nasal swabs, in case of another urgent nationwide need to test patients for COVID-19 or other infectious diseases.

VA signed a memorandum of agreement with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) on June 28 to expand collaborative research.

VA’s Rocky Mountain Network leaders share what they learned from the COVID-19 pandemic and describe the way forward.

We’ve received questions from Veterans, family members and caregivers about COVID-19 vaccines. Here's a compilation of our answers.

Robert Shaw, Marine Corps and Vietnam Veteran, thought he had a sinus infection. It was COVID-19. “His temperature was 102°. We immediately drove to the Montgomery VA Emergency Room.”

Now, in what Strebel calls the “most significant” work in his seven-year VA career, he’s developed a tool that uses artificial intelligence to calculate the risk of a COVID-19 patient dying within 120 days of diagnosis. The hope is that clinicians can use those predictions to improve the treatment of their patients.

What do I need to know about the Delta variant of COVID-19? You asked, we're answering.

I’ve heard that COVID-19 vaccines have been authorized under EUA. What is an EUA, exactly? Learn answers to this and other questions in the latest You Asked, We Answered blog.

Nurse executive La Tara Miller volunteered more than 300 hours providing COVID-19 relief in her community. “I felt like I had to do something. Nurse practitioner or nurse executive, I’m always a nurse.”

Do you know how this VA office works behind the scenes and why it’s really important to you and the Veteran community?

In the time of COVID-19, Veterans especially need to be able to count on  VA. That’s why an important goal of VA’s Office of Information and Technology (OIT) has been and continues to be using technology in ways that make accessing VA services increasingly more seamless, effective, efficient and easy for Veterans.