Citing a letter from the Department of Navy to their forces in the Atlantic, Pacific and support command, former medical intelligence officer Pam Long says military personnel can legal reject the COVID-19 vaccine mandates as long as they’re still listed as an emergency use authorization (EUA).
The classification of Pfizer’s new COVID-19 jab, Comirnaty, is in question because the FDA simultaneously renewed the EUA for the Pfizer-BioNTech jab. In a letter to the Navy, Pfizer says the two are “interchangeable” since Comirnaty is not yet available — leading some people to wonder if the two products are just “similar,” as opposed to exactly the same.
Long says that since Comirnaty isn’t yet available, what Pfizer and the Navy are doing is redistributing the old jab while the new one comes to market — and therefore military personnel can legal reject any mandates to take it.
Following up with an analysis for The Defender, Long — who also is an Army veteran who served in the Medical Service Corps — added that case law shows that military personnel have the right to file for a religious exemption from vaccines.
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Pam Long Twitter September 9, 2021
The Defender September 9, 2021