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Military officials are considering penalties for military and defense civilians who decide not to follow the mandate to get vaccinated against COVID. ....
Concerns raised about COVID-19 vaccines reaching deployed troops February 18 Spc. Michael Meza administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Spc. Sarrod Hearn Jan. 18 at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. (Sgt. 1st Class Noel Gerig/Army) The Pentagon can’t say precisely how many doses have gone to deployed units, a defense official who was not authorized to speak on the record told Military Times on Wednesday, only that out of more than a million doses shipped worldwide, more than 200,000 have gone outside of the contiguous United States. That includes to personnel stationed overseas in Germany, Italy, Korea and Japan. “If we have a major outbreak here, it has huge operational impacts. and yet, our providers haven’t even been vaccinated yet,” a soldier whose unit is spread across Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Syria, who asked not to be identified, told Military Times. “It’s crazy.” ....