About 35 percent of the Navy is vaccinated against COVID-19: CNO
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Hospitalman Cheyenne Bostick, center, assigned to amphibious transport dock ship San Diego, prepares to administer a COVID-19 vaccine to sailors assigned to the guided-missile cruiser Philippine Sea in Manama, Bahrain, on March 2, 2021. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Dawson Roth/Navy)
More than a third of sailors have received the COVID-19 vaccine — but the Navy is still worried about the reluctance of some service members to get the jab, according to the Navy’s top officer.
“Right now, about 35 percent of the force is vaccinated,” Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said Wednesday at a virtual event the Center for a New American Security hosted. “As soon as we get those doses, we are putting them into arms as quickly as we can. And that will get us to a better place.”