More than 10,000 active-duty airmen have a week to get vaccinated

Published October 12, 2021 9:46pm ET



Thousands of active-duty airmen in the U.S. Air Force who are currently unvaccinated have exactly one week to get inoculated for the coronavirus.

The Air Force set a deadline of Nov. 2 for all active-duty personnel to get the vaccine, but a service member is not considered fully vaccinated until two weeks after he or she has received the second dose of a two-shot COVID-19 vaccine or two weeks after the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.

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