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One third of US military is still unvaccinated: 468,000 active duty members have just one month to get the shot by mandate deadline or face the ax

By MICHELLE THOMPSON

  • About 468,000 – or 32 percent – of the military’s 1.46 million total employees weren’t fully inoculated Wednesday
  • The latest figures were released ahead of the November 28 vaccine deadline for active-duty Navy and Marines
  • Among the active-duty force, 97 per cent of troops have received at least one shot and 87 per cent are fully vaccinated
  • There have been 383,560 coronavirus cases and 578 deaths in the military community since the start of the coronavirus pandemic 

Only 68 per cent of the US is military is fully vaccinated against the coronavirus with less then five weeks to go before the mandate deadline passes.

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