The Defense Department is touting its vaccine administration rate as concerns mount that troops are declining to take the voluntary inoculation.
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.
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5 comments:
If the shots work, why voluntary?
I was required to take a number of shots for Far East when I served
People worried about taking the anthrax vaccine over 2 decades ago, but ended up taking them.
You take the shot. I took so many shots before deployments I can't recall them all.
I guess in this Millenial Army it's your option to decline the vaccine??
I took a half dozen or so. No choice. They would'a taken back the pay raise of a couple of dollars to $105/month stateside E-2 under 2.
Why are healthy young military men receiving Covid vaccines when people like me (age 65 with diabetes) unable to get a vaccine?
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