GOP Armed Services chair warns ending mandatory military flu shots ‘a mistake’

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Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) said the Pentagon’s policy change to no longer require all U.S. troops to get flu shots is a “mistake,” drawing a contrast between flu vaccines and more controversial COVID-19 vaccines. “I think it’s a mistake,” Wicker told reporters Tuesday when asked about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s announcement…

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