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Nearly 1 in 4 active-duty sailors have gotten the COVID vaccine, officials say

Nearly 1 in 4 active-duty sailors have gotten the COVID vaccine, officials say February 19 Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Shane Miller prepares COVID-19 vaccines at the Naval Base San Diego fitness center on Jan. 8, 2021. (MC1 Julio Rivera/Navy) Nearly a quarter of the Navy’s active-duty fleet has received one or two shots of the COVID-19 vaccines, officials said Friday. Roughly 10 percent of sailors, about 35,000, have gotten their first jab, while another 13 percent have received both shots, Rear Adm. Karl Thomas, the assistant deputy chief of naval operations for operations, plans and strategy, told reporters. The news comes as the Navy and other services work to educate the ranks that the science behind the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines is sound, and that the shots are safe and effective in protecting themselves, their shipmates and their loved ones.

Concerns raised about COVID-19 vaccines reaching deployed troops

Concerns raised about COVID-19 vaccines reaching deployed troops February 18 Spc. Michael Meza administers the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine to Spc. Sarrod Hearn Jan. 18 at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. (Sgt. 1st Class Noel Gerig/Army) The Pentagon can’t say precisely how many doses have gone to deployed units, a defense official who was not authorized to speak on the record told Military Times on Wednesday, only that out of more than a million doses shipped worldwide, more than 200,000 have gone outside of the contiguous United States. That includes to personnel stationed overseas in Germany, Italy, Korea and Japan. “If we have a major outbreak here, it has huge operational impacts. and yet, our providers haven’t even been vaccinated yet,” a soldier whose unit is spread across Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Syria, who asked not to be identified, told Military Times. “It’s crazy.”

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