Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the White House, said Friday that U.S. military personnel who do not want to receive the coronavirus vaccine are inadvertently part of the problem surrounding the pandemic efforts. to terminate, to prejudice.
“You are part of the solution to this outbreak,” Fauci was quoted as saying by CNBC in City Hall with Blue Star Families, a non-profit organization that supports U.S. military families.
“Because you become infected, even though you may not know it, you can accidentally transmit the infection to someone else, even though you have no symptoms,” the official continued. ‘In fact, you are propagating this outbreak, or not. So instead of being part of the solution, you are innocent and accidentally part of the problem by not being vaccinated. ‘
“You have to think about your own health, which is really very important, but you have to think about your social obligation, including people close to you personally as well as other family members of other individuals,” he added.
About one-third of U.S. military service members, according to the Department of Defense, chose not to take the coronavirus.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said there was no detailed military information on vaccinations, but said more than 916,500 had been administered so far.
Kirby said the level of refusal is at the same level as the general population, where the vaccine has not been offered nearly as widely.
“We in the military basically reflect the acceptance figures of American society,” Kirby told reporters.
Agence France-Presse contributed to this report.