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Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong> IFA intercessors have been praying for medical freedom from mandates for years. A welcome shift in policy from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth brought hope and relief for many military families. Now, there is pressure to return to a flu vaccine mandate, and it appears it is happening. With the release of many of the documents and evidence about the damage of wholesale mandates with no room for exmptions, urgent prayer is needed. IFA\u2019s contacts within the Department of War indicate that there is still an ongoing investigation into the damage caused by the COVID shot mandate and how mandates should be handled going forward. Your critical prayer is needed for this issue.\u00a0<\/em>\n<\/p>\n From Children\u2019s Health Defense:\u00a0 Less than two months after U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ended the military\u2019s flu vaccine mandate\u00a0for service members, several branches of the armed services, including the Army, Navy and Air Force, are again requiring the flu vaccine \u2014 a response, they say, to a\u00a0flu outbreak at a Texas Air Force base.<\/p>\n At least 222 recruits stationed at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio have been diagnosed with the flu,\u00a0ABC News\u00a0reported Tuesday, citing sources \u201cfamiliar with the situation.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Four of the recruits were hospitalized. One recruit, Keon McDaniel, died June 12 following a \u201cmedical emergency.\u201d\n<\/p>\n In an interview today on CHD.TV, nephrologist\u00a0Dr. Suzanne Humphries\u00a0cited unconfirmed reports suggesting that McDaniel contracted pneumonia. \u201cIt still remains unclear whether his death was actually linked\u201d to the flu outbreak, Humphries said.\n<\/p>\n Mainstream media reports \u2014 including a\u00a0Washington Post editorial\u00a0\u2014 linked the outbreak and McDaniel\u2019s death to the end of the military\u2019s flu shot mandate. But some experts cast doubt on that narrative and said they still question the need for a military flu shot mandate.\n<\/p>\n \u201cAfter reviewing multiple press reports, I could find no evidence that the death \u2026 was linked to flu infection,\u201d said internal medicine physician\u00a0Dr. Clayton J. Baker. \u201cBarring clear evidence that he died due to the flu, it is beyond irresponsible, both epidemiologically and journalistically, to link his death to the purported outbreak.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Some experts also questioned why media reports would link the flu outbreak to the military\u2019s recent decision to end the flu vaccine\u00a0mandate, given the timing of both.\n<\/p>\n \u201cA longer period of lower flu shot uptake, along with occurrence during peak flu season (winter, not summer), would be needed for a stronger causal case,\u201d said epidemiologist and\u00a0McCullough Foundation\u00a0fellow M. Nathaniel Mead, Ph.D.\n<\/p>\n ABC News reported that the outbreak prompted several branches of the military to request exceptions to the U.S. Defense Department\u2019s flu vaccine\u00a0policy.\n<\/p>\n However, the\u00a0Military Times\u00a0reported last month, before the Texas outbreak, that several branches requested the exceptions soon after Hegseth announced the new policy.\n<\/p>\n An Air Force spokesperson told\u00a0The Defender, \u201cOver the last three weeks, the 37th Training Wing, in close coordination with the 59th Medical Wing, has been managing a localized influenza outbreak among trainees at Basic Military Training.\u201d This led the Air Force to implement \u201cmitigation measures\u201d at that facility.\n<\/p>\n Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell told The Defender that the department received several requests for \u201cexceptions to the policy.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Parnell said these requests were granted \u201cfollowing a comprehensive review \u2026 and in line with standard Department of War practice for adapting force health protection measures to critical operational realities.\u201d\n<\/p>\n According to Parnell, the decisions \u201cwere based upon thorough risk assessments and are designed to maximize operational readiness, lethality, and force generation, while safeguarding at-risk populations.\u201d\n<\/p>\n Other branches that granted exceptions include the National Security Agency and the Defense Health Agency.\n<\/p>\n However, the Air Force spokesperson did not clarify whether McDaniel\u2019s death was linked to the flu or to his vaccination status, which has not been publicly disclosed.\n<\/p>\n Mead said it\u2019s unlikely flu was the direct cause of McDaniel\u2019s death.\n<\/p>\n (Excerpt from The Epoch Times. 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