{"id":60995,"date":"2021-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/23\/pentagon-to-make-covid-19-vaccination-mandatory-for-military\/"},"modified":"2021-08-25T17:11:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-25T17:11:38","slug":"pentagon-to-make-covid-19-vaccination-mandatory-for-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2021\/08\/23\/pentagon-to-make-covid-19-vaccination-mandatory-for-military\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon to Make COVID-19 Vaccination Mandatory for Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>\n<p>Officials are preparing to issue guidance to require vaccination, although no exact timeline has been given<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>MONDAY, Aug. 23, 2021 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Following on full U.S. regulatory approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, the Pentagon announced on Monday that all military personnel &#8212; including 1.3 million active-duty troops &#8212; must get their shots.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em>Associated Press<\/em>, Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby said Pentagon officials are preparing to issue guidance to require vaccination, although no exact timeline was given.<\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon announcement is of little surprise: Earlier in August, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said in a memo that he would &#8220;seek the president&#8217;s approval to make the vaccines mandatory no later than mid-September, or immediately upon&#8221; licensure by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration &#8212; &#8220;whichever comes first,&#8221; the <em>A<\/em><em>P<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s full approval of the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine should open the floodgates to more widespread action aimed at getting vaccine-hesitant Americans to line up for their shots.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/business-health-coronavirus-pandemic-e08a6e68308b27ad7653ca9210d953dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Associated Press<\/em> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials are preparing to issue guidance to require vaccination, although no exact timeline has been given<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":61197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-60995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}