Pentagon push has more US servicemembers getting vaccinated

Fox News has exclusively obtained new data from an online survey of military families showing there has been some improvement since December among those concerned with getting the vaccine.

If the 600,000 troops and their families don’t get vaccinated before their summer moves, they could be a vector to spread the disease as happened during the 1918 Pandemic. The virus traveled with military personnel from camp to camp and across the Atlantic, and at the height of the American military involvement in the war, September through November 1918, influenza and pneumonia sickened 20% to 40% of U.S. Army and Navy personnel. Blue Star Families, a veteran and military family non-profit, and COVID Collaborative, which conducted the survey have made the following recommendations to the Pentagon: ● Offering a choice: 66% of active-duty service members say a choice in the type of vaccine increases their likelihood of receiving one.