The Department of Veterans Affairs announced on Monday that all healthcare employees will need to be vaccinated against the coronavirus within eight weeks.This comes after other hospital groups in Arkansas have mandated the COVID-19 vaccine, including Mercy, Washington Regional, MANA, and Arkansas Children s Hospital.The Veterans Health Care System of the Ozarks declined to comment further on the issue, but one local veteran does not support the decision Well, I think it’s a very irresponsible decision by the VA secretary, said Air Force Veteran Guymon Hall.Hall told 40/29 News he wanted to see more data on long term vaccine efficacy and chose not to get vaccinated since the vaccines are not fully authorized by the FDA. So in the military, you have to do what the commander says, and if the military says you’ve got to take a shot, you have to take that shot. Well, that’s different when you’re out here in the civilian world, because you have that freedom to make the infor
State s count of new cases jumps 1,476
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Arkansas cases hit 494, down from 700
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