House Republicans slam Biden admin for still mandating COVID-19 vaccines in military: 'no scientific reason'
Fox News
Nearly two dozen House Republicans sent a letter to President Biden on Tuesday expressing concerns over the administration's “continued COVID-19 vaccine mandate for service members.”
In response to these comments, the letter reads "With the waning efficacy and durability of vaccine-induced immunity, forcing service members who are by and large a healthy and not an ‘at risk’ population, to be inoculated with no certainty of preventing infection or spread, while concurrently sowing seeds of division and discord, is absolutely wrong."
In August 2021 Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin issued a statement declaring his intent to have the armed forces vaccinated "no later than mid September, or immediately upon the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) licensure [of a COVID19 vaccine], whichever comes first." The letter continues, "While there is precedent for service-wide vaccinations in the military, given this particular virus, and now in the era of therapeutics, this rationale no longer exists for COVID-19. If a service member were to become sick from the virus, medication can be administered immediately to treat the virus."