Democratic Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan is calling on the secretary of defense to reinstate the flu vaccine mandate for all service members.<\/p>\n
She’s a veteran who serves parts of Berks and Chester counties.<\/p>\n
She says the vaccine protects troops and pointed to a flu outbreak at Lackland Air Force base in Texas that has sickened hundreds as a reason the vaccine should be required.<\/p>\n
In April, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called the vaccine mandate “overly broad and not rational.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan is calling on the secretary of defense to reinstate the flu vaccine mandate for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,1557,17670,100422,100424,28486,100423,4424,128,130,129,24633,1395],"class_list":["post-232266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-chester-county","tag-chrissy-houlahan","tag-defense-secretary-pete-hegseth","tag-flu-outbreak","tag-flu-vaccine","tag-lackland-air-force-base","tag-military","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-service-members","tag-vaccine-mandate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}