Posted on 02/18/2021 9:49:51 AM PST by 11th_VA
Nearly 150,000 service members are fully vaccinated, a panel of defense officials told lawmakers in a House Armed Services Committee hearing on the Pentagon’s coronavirus response. About two-thirds of troops who were offered the vaccine accepted it. There are about 1.3 million active-duty troops. The acceptance rate “mirrors preliminary data that we see in other communities” of Americans, Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul Friedrichs, a Joint Chiefs of Staff health official, told lawmakers.
The military is collecting data on race and ethnicity among those who accept vaccinations, Friedrichs said in a discussion about reluctance that some communities have about the vaccine. But the officials acknowledged limitations in what they can do to compel troops to receive vaccinations.
The military mandates that service members receive a variety of vaccinations at enlistment, and often additional inoculations are required before deployments for typhoid, polio and other diseases. But the emergency use authorizations for the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines prevent commanders from requiring their use without Food and Drug Administration approval, Taliaferro said. Taliaferro said defense officials don’t know why some troops turn down opportunities to inoculate....
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At some point (by mid-summer), they will flip the button and mandate it (like the mandatory flu vaccination order that’s been around for 50-odd years).
Collecting data on race and ethnicity.
By mid summer the stories of bad reactions will be out, vindicating these people.
....was going to ask the same question... when I was in uniform, every year we had to get the flu shot...only a few exceptions for medical reasons, if I recall... to refuse the shot would subject you to an Article 15 if my growingly feeble memory serves me.....
Bad reactions didn’t stop the anthrax shot. Remember how that whole fiasco went twenty years ago?
In the end...only after an inspection revealed serious production facility issues....did the whole mandated shot deal fall apart.
How is it they get a choice?
Anyone that tries to stick a needle in my arm will get a pistol stuck
between their eyes.
I took an anthrax shot. Not the same deal.
the emergency use authorizations for the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccines prevent commanders from requiring their use without Food and Drug Administration approval, Taliaferro said.
As well as 40% of the general population.
This vaccine, unlike anthrax or flu, is in testing stage. It has not been approved by the FDA
The military can make you do a lot of things but they can’t make you take a drug that has not been approved by the FDA.
The first shots of Moderna's vaccine were given in March of 2020, nearly a year ago. So when can we expect all these bad reactions? Why weren't they observed in anyone earlier?
Pay attention
In my day you couldn’t refuse.
There were various people across the different services who had serious reactions to the Anthrax vaccine. DoD didn’t want to really go and review the cases.
So when FDA did their surprise inspection of the production plant....it failed. The company turned around and said they couldn’t pay for the repairs, and actually got DoD to pay (which ended up paying for the repaving of the parking lot as part of the deal as well). After that....some medical folks in DoD finally said that various claims were not proven, and in a matter of a couple of months....they just stock-piled the vaccine and didn’t force the issue again.
They did during the anthrax vaccine and shown the door. I don’t know if they will for this.
Anthrax was FDA approved. This isn’t. They cannot force it.
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