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VA won’t ‘challenge’ employees who request COVID-19 vaccine religious exemption

By Mike Brest
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VA won’t ‘challenge’ employees who request COVID-19 vaccine religious exemption

The Department of Veterans Affairs will not fight personnel on religious exemption requests for the coronavirus vaccine.

Secretary Denis McDonough characterized such claims as “self-executing,” and he said the department is not “going to challenge the legitimacy of someone’s claims to a religious [exemption].”

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