Latest "military vaccine mandate" stories

Austin ends the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate

The Defense Department will no longer require currently serving troops to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

By Meghann Myers

4 weeks ago

Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Gregzon Fontanilla, from Guam, prepares a COVID-19 vaccine aboard amphibious assault carrier USS Tripoli (LHA 7), May 10, 2022. (Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Malcolm Kelley/Navy)

Services may be improperly denying vaccine religious waivers, IG says

A DoD IG review of religious waivers to COVID vaccines shows the services may be failing to provide individualized assessments, required by federal law.

By Meghann Myers

5 months ago

Troops can now get Novavax as a COVID-19 vaccine

Novavax is not made with, nor tested on, cells descended from fetal tissue. It also doesn’t use mRNA to deliver the vaccine into cells.

By Meghann Myers

5 months ago

New vaccine may be option for troops with religious concerns

The Novavax COVID-19 vaccine may be an acceptable option for some of the service members who have sought religious exemptions from the mandatory vaccine.

By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press

8 months ago

Troops allege military’s COVID vaccine mandate is a ‘religious purge’

Two airmen and a soldier appeared on a podcast hosted by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Florida.

By Meghann Myers

10 months ago

Could the Supreme Court strike down the military’s vaccination mandate?

Multiple lawsuits are arguing that the military is blanketly refusing religious exemptions for the COVID-19 vaccine.

By Meghann Myers

12 months ago