{"id":38559,"date":"2021-08-09T13:27:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38559"},"modified":"2021-08-09T17:27:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T00:27:36","slug":"troops-will-be-required-to-get-the-coronavirus-vaccine-by-mid-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38559","title":{"rendered":"Troops will be required to get the coronavirus vaccine by mid-September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon will require all military personnel to get the COVID-19 vaccine by Sept. 15, according to a new memo from Defense Secretary\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/pdcdwrftvhhbgrghbymvvbddvfbkhfhsslvtrckhqmyqqf_tbmlvvhzhklczjvbmcwj.html?a=&amp;b=41345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/pdcdwrftvhhbgrghbymvvbddvfbkhfhsslvtrckhqmyqqf_tbmlvvhzhklczjvbmcwj.html?a%3D%26b%3D41345&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1628634053085000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEQHr4hDVT0_uayEg49AO4D7499IA\">Lloyd Austin<\/a>\u00a0released on 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.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Pentagon officials \u201cwill also be keeping a close eye on infection rates,\u201d currently on the rise due to the highly contagious delta variant. If the rates begin to impact military readiness, \u201cI will not hesitate to act sooner or recommend a different course to the President if l feel the need to do so. To defend this Nation, we need a healthy and ready force,&#8221; Austin said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden \u2014 who late last month\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vmgmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzfvhkvvf_tbmlvvhzhklczjvbmcwj.html?a=&amp;b=41345\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/vmgmdqrbyffncqcfnkhyynmmyrnzfrfttgybqjzfvhkvvf_tbmlvvhzhklczjvbmcwj.html?a%3D%26b%3D41345&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1628634053085000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHkQdEhDae7Q-PV_m9PALMga9bWnA\">told Defense Department officials to come up with a plan<\/a>\u00a0to require troops to get shots \u2014 on Monday said he \u201cstrongly\u201d supports Austin\u2019s new message.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecretary Austin and I share an unshakable commitment to making sure our troops have every tool they need to do their jobs as safely as possible,\u201d Biden said in a statement.<\/p>\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-38559","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\/38559","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=38559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38560,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38559\/revisions\/38560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}