Nearly 40% of Marines have so far declined to receive a vaccine to protect against the coronavirus yahoo.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from yahoo.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
About 35 percent of the Navy is vaccinated against COVID-19: CNO 4 days ago 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.”
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Department of Defense (DoD) said that about one-third of U.S. military troops have declined to get the Wuhan coronavirus vaccine. Top Pentagon officials commented that despite this percentage, the majority of the armed forces had accepted the jab. They reiterated that efforts to educate troops on the importance of the vaccines would be continued, in line with officials aiming to vaccinate the entire armed forces.
Acting Defense Secretary for Homeland Defense and Global Security Bob Salesses laid down military COVID-19 vaccination figures during a Feb. 17
House Committee on Armed Services hearing. Of the almost 916,000 doses administered to Pentagon personnel, 359,000 have received the initial dose. Meanwhile, 147,000 have completed the vaccine’s two-dose regimen.
Though the Pentagon is not releasing publicly its data of vaccine distribution at specific locations, it is tracking it and working to improve areas with lower acceptance rates, said Robert G. Salesses, acting assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and global security.