{"id":228841,"date":"2021-03-04T07:12:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-04T07:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=228841"},"modified":"2021-03-06T06:12:08","modified_gmt":"2021-03-06T06:12:08","slug":"a-third-of-all-u-s-military-personnel-are-refusing-to-receive-the-covid-19-vaccine-with-alarmed-commanders-aiming-to-make-the-shot-mandatory-as-soon-as-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=228841","title":{"rendered":"A THIRD of all U.S. military personnel are refusing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine with alarmed commanders aiming to make the shot mandatory &#8216;as soon as possible&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>A third of all military personnel are refusing the COVID-19 vaccine\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Some are citing the rushed rollout of the anthrax vaccine in the 1990s as the reason why they do not want to receive the new COVID jab<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In 1997, the military made it mandatory for service personnel to receive the anthrax shot; thousands subsequently complained of debilitating side effects\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>A lengthy legal battle ensued, before the courts determined that the FDA hadn&#8217;t &#8216;adequately studied&#8217; how effective the shot was against the inhalation anthrax<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Commanders concede they need to do a better job of messaging and allaying fears among military members that they are being used as &#8216;testers&#8217; for the jab\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Other personnel are citing wild conspiracy theories about the vaccine, including one who refused the shot for fear it was implanting a tracking device\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Andrew Court \u2013 Mail Online March 2, 2021<\/h1>\n<p>A third of all military personnel are refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine, and in some units just 30% of enlistees are willing to have a shot, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0figure is alarming commanders as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage across the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Personnel who refuse the vaccine will face no repercussions due to a federal law that &#8216;prohibits the mandatory application of medicines within the military that are not fully licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration&#8217;,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/society\/military-covid-vaccine\/\"><strong>The Nation<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n<p>At present, the Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson &amp; Johnson COVID-19 vaccines have only been granted &#8217;emergency use authorizations&#8217; by the FDA.<\/p>\n<p>But regulators and officials say the vaccines are safe and, in the case of the\u00a0Moderna and Pfizer shots, at least 94% effective. The Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine was 66% effective in trials, but is a single shot rather than two.<\/p>\n<p>While it could take years for the shots to become fully licensed by the federal agency, the military may make the vaccine mandatory once that happens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Obviously, we&#8217;re thinking about what happens when they become FDA-approved,&#8217; Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby stated on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It would change the character of the decision-making process, about whether they could be mandatory or voluntary. But I don&#8217;t want to get ahead of that process right now.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Some personnel are reluctant to receive the vaccine due to backlash from the military&#8217;s rushed rollout of an anthrax vaccine back in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>In 1997, the government made it mandatory for personnel to receive the jab, but &#8216;huge numbers of service members complained of debilitating side effects&#8217; and a lengthy legal battle ensued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9316827\/A-military-personnel-refusing-receive-COVID-19-vaccine.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A combination of what the Mail Online calls \u201cwild conspiracy theories\u201d and problems following the rushed rollout of the anthrax vaccine in the 1990s, is contributing to reluctance to get vaccinated <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228842,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228841\/revisions\/228842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}