{"id":38526,"date":"2021-08-09T10:50:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T17:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38526"},"modified":"2021-08-09T11:50:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T18:50:53","slug":"pentagon-to-require-all-troops-to-get-coronavirus-vaccine-by-mid-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38526","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon to require all troops to get coronavirus vaccine by mid-September"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"left\">The Pentagon will require all military personnel to get the COVID-19 vaccine by Sept. 15 or sooner, according to a new memo from Defense Secretary\u00a0Lloyd Austin, released Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will seek the president\u2019s approval to make the vaccines mandatory no later than mid-September, or immediately upon\u201d final approval by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) \u201cwhichever comes first,\u201d Austin wrote in the memo to troops.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon will require all military&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38527,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38526\/revisions\/38527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}