The Military and Veterans' Room
The article caught by interest because of the sub-title:
The Defense Department is touting its vaccine administration rate as concerns mount that troops are declining to take the voluntary inoculation.
I guess the DoD learned its lesson from Desert Storm. We had no option but to take experimental vaccines then.
Pentagon Touts Vaccine Administration Rate Amid Concerns of Widespread Refusal
Read the rest at the link.THE DEFENSE DEPARTMENT on Thursday touted what it considers the high percentage of coronavirus vaccines it has distributed among military troops in response to growing concerns that a broad swathe of its personnel are refusing to get inoculated.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters the department has so far ordered more than 1 million doses and as of Thursday morning had received roughly 968,000. Of those, 800,000, or about 82%, have been administered – almost 600,000 were first doses, and more than 200,000 were second doses. The active-duty force numbers roughly 1.3 million members, with about 800,000 reservists.
Kirby's accounting of the vaccines administered so far was in response to questions about sizable elements of the military that appear to be refusing to take it. And he reiterated that the coronavirus vaccine, for now, remains voluntary, unlike other vaccinations and medicines that almost all troops must receive.
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