A high-ranking military official on Wednesday said that a third of service members have declined to receive the coronavirus vaccine.
During a House hearing on the Armed Forces’ response to COVID-19, Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Ala.) asked Maj. Gen Jeff Taliaferro, Vice Director for Operations, what percentage of service members have declined to receive the vaccine.
“I think our initial look — and this is of course very early data — is acceptance rates are somewhere in the two-thirds territory, and of course it varies by different groups,” Taliaferro said.
Rogers followed up by asking if the service members who were not vaccinated were deployable.
Taliaferro stated non-immunized service members were deployable, saying the “services and commands” that have been set up over the past year have allowed the Armed Forces to operate in a “COVID environment.”
Maj. Gen. Steven Nordhaus confirmed in the same hearing that vaccinations were voluntary for military members.
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