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One-third of the US military is still unvaccinated: 468,000 active-duty members have just one month to get the shot by mandate deadline or face the ax
Date: October 28, 2021Author: Nwo Report
Source: Daily Mail
Only 68 percent of the US is military is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus with less than five weeks to go before the mandate deadline passes.
About 468,000 – or 32 percent – of the military’s 1.46 million total employees weren’t fully inoculated Wednesday ahead of the November 28 target date for active-duty Navy and Marines.
About 82 percent of the total force has received at least one jab, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said, meaning about 263,200 members have yet to receive a single dose of an FDA-approved vaccine.
The figures are more promising among the active-duty force, where 97 percent have received at least one shot and 87 percent are fully vaccinated.
Active Army troops must be fully inoculated by December 15, while Reserve and National Guard employees have until June 30, 2022, to get the jab, the US Army said.
Kirby told reporters Wednesday that there’s been little resistance to the vaccine.
‘People understand that this is an important program,’ he said. ‘And they’re participating in it.’
There have been 383,560 coronavirus cases and 578 deaths in the military community since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Department of Defense.
Before the mandate, vaccines were optional, but Lt. Gen. R. Scott Dingle said in August they would become necessary to protect the force.
‘This is quite literally a matter of life and death for our Soldiers, their families and the communities in which we live,’ he said in a press release.
Those who would refuse a COVID shot would be punished, though it wasn’t immediately clear what the repercussions might be.
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Date: October 28, 2021Author: Nwo Report
Source: Daily Mail
Only 68 percent of the US is military is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus with less than five weeks to go before the mandate deadline passes.
About 468,000 – or 32 percent – of the military’s 1.46 million total employees weren’t fully inoculated Wednesday ahead of the November 28 target date for active-duty Navy and Marines.
About 82 percent of the total force has received at least one jab, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said, meaning about 263,200 members have yet to receive a single dose of an FDA-approved vaccine.
The figures are more promising among the active-duty force, where 97 percent have received at least one shot and 87 percent are fully vaccinated.
Active Army troops must be fully inoculated by December 15, while Reserve and National Guard employees have until June 30, 2022, to get the jab, the US Army said.
Kirby told reporters Wednesday that there’s been little resistance to the vaccine.
‘People understand that this is an important program,’ he said. ‘And they’re participating in it.’
There have been 383,560 coronavirus cases and 578 deaths in the military community since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the Department of Defense.
Before the mandate, vaccines were optional, but Lt. Gen. R. Scott Dingle said in August they would become necessary to protect the force.
‘This is quite literally a matter of life and death for our Soldiers, their families and the communities in which we live,’ he said in a press release.
Those who would refuse a COVID shot would be punished, though it wasn’t immediately clear what the repercussions might be.
Read more
https://nworeport.me/2021/10/28/one-third-of-the-us-military-is-still-unvaccinated-468000-active-duty-members-have-just-one-month-to-get-the-shot-by-mandate-deadline-or-face-the-ax/
Thanks to: https://nworeport.me
