With nearly 97% of Air Force service members vaccinated against Covid-19 by the service's deadline on Tuesday, thousands of airmen have applied for religious exemptions, though none have yet been granted.
With nearly 97% of Air Force service members vaccinated against Covid-19 by the service's deadline on Tuesday, thousands of airmen have applied for religious exemptions, though none have yet been granted.
According to data released by the Air Force as it reached its November 2 deadline, 96.9% of the roughly 326,000 airmen are either fully or partially vaccinated, while 800 service members have outright refused to be vaccinated.Of the nearly 8,500 airmen who have not yet been vaccinated, some 5,000 have applied for religious exemptions. Those requests are now in progress and will be evaluated over the next 30 days on a case-by-case basis, the Air Force said in a statement accompanying the data.
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