Agencies That Required Vaccines Before Biden's Push See Early Success

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WASHINGTON — President Biden’s new coronavirus vaccination mandates have prompted some backlash, but the two federal departments that already require vaccinations say their actions are doing what they intended: getting more shots in arms.

Since the Pentagon announced last month that active-duty military personnel would be required to be vaccinated, the percentage of service members with at least one shot has risen to 83 percent from 76 percent, according to Defense Department data.

At the Department of Veterans Affairs, which issued a vaccine mandate for its 115,000 frontline health care workers seven weeks ago, 82 percent of those employees are now fully vaccinated, up from 77 percent, and the number of shots it has given to all of its workers has more than doubled since early July, said Terrence Hayes, a spokesman for the department.

The increases elude the goals of getting virtually everyone at both agencies inoculated, but at least in the military, where troops have long been used to taking orders and avoiding voluntary actions, the numbers are expected to rise. Each service branch is working through its enforcement plan.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/agencies-that-issued-mandates-before-bidens-push-show-some-early-success/ar-AAOiWXP

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1. This is working for Delta in the private sector

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2. Frum is relentless with the facts in this twitter thread.

Sector after sector of business and society is showing immediate improvement in vaccination rates with few resignation patterns of note. Turns out if recalcitrant people are forced to take responsibility for themselves & do the right thing or lose their jobs, they usually will do the right thing. Good news!