While mandatory vaccines are part of a military person’s requirements for duty, the COVID-19 vaccines are not mandated — yet — because of their emergency use status.
Because they have a choice with this one, 38.9% the U.S. Marines overall are refusing to take the shot, CNN and ZeroHedge report. At Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, 57% have refused the shot so far.
If a group of Democrats get their way, however, military personnel won’t be able to decline for long, CNN said, as they’ve asked President Biden “to issue a ‘waiver of informed consent’ to make getting vaccinated against Covid-19 mandatory for all US military service members, writing in a letter that ‘disinformation and vaccine skepticism’ are influencing service members to opt out of being vaccinated.”
SOURCES:
ZeroHedge April 11, 2021
CNN April 10, 2021