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U.S. Troops Will Be Among the First to Get COVID-19 Vaccine
The Vaccine ^ | 07/13/20 | Rishma Parpia

Posted on 07/14/2020 11:08:58 AM PDT by Enlightened1

Senior White House officials reported that United States service members would be among the first Americans to receive a COVID-19 vaccine after it has been licensed. Officials said the groups likely to receive the vaccine first include the most vulnerable people such as the elderly, patients with underlying health conditions, employees in essential businesses and the U.S. military.​

Operation Warp Speed (OWS) under way at the federal level is a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and has a goal of delivering 300 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine by January 2021. Meeting that goal is part of a broader strategy to accelerate the development, manufacturing, and distribution of COVID-19 vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.2

The U.S. military is playing a significant role in OWS. General Gustave Perna is chief operating officer of OWS. Army Lieutenant General Paul Ostrowski is leading the supply, production and distribution directorate, and Army Brigadier General Michael McCurry is leading the security assurance directorate. In addition, 36 additional Department of Defense personnel are working on the OWS.3

The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) announced that it has selected a lead vaccine candidate among the many experimental COVID-19 vaccines that Army researchers have been working on since the beginning of the year. They plan on testing leading candidate vaccines in human trials in late 2020.4

Brigadier General Michael J. Talley, the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command (USMRDC) said:

"USAMRDC is moving at unprecedented speeds in the effort to prevent, detect, and treat COVID-19. We are supporting the whole-of-government response with the scientific knowledge and expertise to combat this world-wide challenge"

In early May 2020, the U.S. military banned the enlistment of any person who had been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The military released a new guidance...

(Excerpt) Read more at thevaccinereaction.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: covid19; first; troops; vaccine
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1 posted on 07/14/2020 11:08:58 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

W.H.O. officials, Dr. Fauci, Bill Gates, and Democrat legislators should be first in line for the vaccine.


2 posted on 07/14/2020 11:10:19 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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To: stars & stripes forever

...and their families.


3 posted on 07/14/2020 11:10:33 AM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. (Psalm 32:12))
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To: stars & stripes forever

Agree 100%


4 posted on 07/14/2020 11:14:07 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Do Not experiment on our men and women!


5 posted on 07/14/2020 11:14:27 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Enlightened1

I don’t like this one bit!!!


6 posted on 07/14/2020 11:14:31 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

Will they or will they not have a say?


7 posted on 07/14/2020 11:17:12 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

I think this is very bad.


8 posted on 07/14/2020 11:17:43 AM PDT by wally_bert (Transmission tone, Selma.)
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To: Vendome

You seen Bill Gates track record in India?

48,000 Children in India were paralyzed by Bill Gates’ Polio vaccine


9 posted on 07/14/2020 11:21:01 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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“Senior White House officials reported that United States service members would be among the first Americans to receive a COVID-19 vaccine after it has been licensed.”

Who are these senior White House Officials?

Are these senior officials in the current administration or are they from a past administration?


10 posted on 07/14/2020 11:23:14 AM PDT by Meatspace
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To: Enlightened1

No suprise there.


11 posted on 07/14/2020 11:24:00 AM PDT by angcat (THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!)
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To: Enlightened1

talk about human guinea pigs


12 posted on 07/14/2020 11:25:41 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

Half a** backwards. They should have been among the people tested FIRST and since then, tested for antibodies.


13 posted on 07/14/2020 11:26:38 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: stars & stripes forever

I would add...all U.N. folks too....


14 posted on 07/14/2020 11:26:53 AM PDT by Osage Orange (qcsi)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Of course they won’t have a say. They never do! That is the price of enlistment.


15 posted on 07/14/2020 11:29:03 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

...I would bet that our troops would have NO say in this matter....! just as when I was in the military, every year we had to get our flu shot - whether we wanted one or not, whether we believed in the effectiveness of this shot or not, you got your shot, or else.....unless there was a very VERY good and substantiated reason why you could not get this flu shot, I believe an Article 15 awaited you if you refused it.


16 posted on 07/14/2020 11:29:28 AM PDT by TokarevM57
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We don’t get the shots they get. I remember I was upset my daughter had to get the Anthrax shot.


17 posted on 07/14/2020 11:30:33 AM PDT by angcat (THANK YOU LORD FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP!!!!!)
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To: Vendome
In January 1974 the USAF used an experimental vaccine for a cold virus, an Adenovirus, on 1000 troops at Lackland AFB. Testing for the vaccine was thorough but still had a couple of items to be examined. Right after the USAF administered the vaccine to the troops, virologists discovered that the vaccine had an "Onc" gene that caused severe tumors in lab animals. Vaccines are important but testing needs to be thorough before they are used. I learned of this incident in an advanced virology class at the University of Tennessee from one of the virologists that was involved with the study.
18 posted on 07/14/2020 11:38:38 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Enlightened1

Guinea pigs.


19 posted on 07/14/2020 11:41:26 AM PDT by moovova
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To: 1Old Pro

Guess they’re planning on destroying our own military and leaving everyone in the world open to a China invasion.


20 posted on 07/14/2020 11:42:25 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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