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   From: treason@nytimes.com   
      
   Roughly one-third of US military members have declined to get   
   vaccinated for COVID-19, a Pentagon official said in a report   
   Wednesday.   
      
   Air Force Maj. Gen. Jeff Taliaferro, the Joint Staff’s vice   
   director for operations, told a congressional panel that   
   “acceptance rates are somewhere in the two-thirds territory,”   
   according to the Daily Beast.   
      
   While the vaccine is “clearly safe for service members,”   
   soldiers need education “to help them understand the benefits”   
   of the shots, he told the House Armed Services Committee.   
      
   In total, the Defense Department has fully vaccinated 147,000   
   service members and 359,000 have received a first dose, Pentagon   
   official Robert Salesses told the outlet.   
      
   Those who have declined can still be deployed, Taliaferro said.   
      
   “We’ve already demonstrated over the last year that we’re fully   
   capable of operating in a COVID environment,” he said, according   
   to Inside Defense.   
      
   Officials said they expect all Department of Defense personnel —   
   which also includes civilians and contractors — will be   
   vaccinated by late July or early August, the site reported.   
      
   At least 235,258 people in the department have been infected   
   with COVID-19 in the past year, according to a Military.com   
   tally, with many of the worst outbreaks happening aboard Navy   
   ships — including the USS Theodore Roosevelt, where hundreds of   
   sailors got the bug last year.   
      
   The military acceptance rate of the vaccine is on par with the   
   general population of the US, according to a journal of Social   
   Science & Medicine study, which found that 31 percent of the   
   general population don’t plan on getting vaccinated.   
      
   An earlier study found that up to 51 percent of Americans would   
   refuse the shots.   
      
   A rep for the Pentagon didn’t immediately respond to a request   
   for comment Wednesday.   
      
   Fuck Biden and his Chinese masters.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2021/02/17/one-third-of-us-military-members-   
   are-declining-covid-19-vaccinations/   
      
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