U.S. military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate would be repealed under a compromise must-pass annual defense bill revealed Tuesday, ending requirement for all active-duty and part-time troops to get the jab.
In the most recent version of the National Defense Authorization Act, the annual military funding bill, Covid vaccine mandates for members of the military are likely to get struck down.
Republican congressional leader Kevin McCarthy is adamant that the vaccine mandate currently being imposed on the military is going to be lifted very soon by the Biden administration.
The CDC took nearly two years to formally recognize distinctions between masks for mitigating COVID-19 spread, finally saying in January that cloth masks offer "the least" protection and N95 respirators, which meet strict federal standards, "the highest."
The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with unvaccinated Air Force service members by upholding an injunction pausing the military's COVID-19 vaccine mandate.