GOP Armed Services chair warns ending mandatory military flu shots ‘a mistake’
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said the Pentagon’s policy change to no longer require all U.S. troops to get flu shots is a “mistake,” drawing a contrast between flu vaccines and more controversial COVID-19 vaccines. “I think it’s a mistake,” Wicker told reporters Tuesday when asked about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s announcement…
Read MorePentagon to Stop Requiring Members of Military to Get Flu Vaccines
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called the mandate “overreaching” in announcing the policy change. The vaccine will remain available to service members who want to be inoculated.
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