{"id":240517,"date":"2021-08-10T06:19:47","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T06:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=240517"},"modified":"2021-08-11T07:37:08","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T07:37:08","slug":"pentagon-to-require-mandatory-covid-vaccines-by-mid-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=240517","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon to require mandatory COVID vaccines by mid-September"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luis Martinez and Matt Seyler \u2013 ABC News Aug 9, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin<\/p><\/div>\n

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will request approval<\/a> for the COVID-19<\/a> vaccine to become mandatory<\/a> for all U.S. military service members by mid-September, according to a memo he sent to all Defense Department employees.<\/p>\n

“I want you to know that I will seek the President’s approval to make the vaccines<\/a> mandatory no later than mid-September, or immediately upon the U.S. Food and Drug Agency (FDA) licensure, whichever comes first,” Austin wrote in the memo.<\/p>\n

A U.S. official initially confirmed<\/a> Austin’s decision to ABC News before it was later made public in a written message to all U.S. military service members.<\/p>\n

“By way of expectation, public reporting suggests the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine could achieve full FDA licensure early next month. The intervening few weeks will be spent preparing for this transition,” Austin wrote.<\/p>\n

Given the rising coronavirus<\/a> case numbers amid the increasing spread of the highly transmissible delta variant, Austin noted that “I will not hesitate to act sooner or recommend a different course to the President if l feel the need to do so.”<\/p>\n

In a statement released shortly after Austin’s memo was sent out, the president said, “I strongly support Secretary Austin\u2019s message to the Force today on the Department of Defense\u2019s plan to add the COVID-19 vaccine to the list of required vaccinations for our service members not later than mid-September. Secretary Austin and I share an unshakable commitment to making sure our troops have every tool they need to do their jobs as safely as possible. These vaccines will save lives. Period. They are safe. They are effective.”<\/p>\n

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Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Formerly, the U.S. military could only recommend that service members get vaccinated. With Defense Secretary Austin\u2019s announcement vaccinations will now be mandatory for all U.S. service personnel from mid-September <\/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-240517","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\/240517","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=240517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240531,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240517\/revisions\/240531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=240517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}