Air Force Major General Jeff Taliaferro told Congress on Wednesday that very early data suggests that just up to two-thirds of the service members offered the vaccine have accepted.
Pentagon officials say that about one-third of the U.S. military are declining to receive the COVID-19 vaccine, despite significant coronavirus infection levels in the forces.
By JOSEPH DITZLER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 18, 2021
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. TOKYO – The U.S. military command in South Korea on Thursday reported that 14 people have tested positive for the coronavirus since Jan. 19, all of them new arrivals to the peninsula. South Korea reported 621 new infections Wednesday, according to the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency. Seoul accounted for 179 and Gyeonggi province, home of the country’s largest U.S. base, Camp Humphreys, had 237.