{"id":1671680,"date":"2022-10-04T09:54:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1671680"},"modified":"2022-10-04T09:55:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T13:55:49","slug":"national-guard-gives-service-members-covid-19-vaccine-instead-of-influenza-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/national-guard-gives-service-members-covid-19-vaccine-instead-of-influenza-shot\/","title":{"rendered":"National Guard Gives Service Members COVID-19 Vaccine Instead of Influenza Shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnational-guard-gives-service-members-covid-19-vaccine-instead-of-influenza-shot%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1671680&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-national-guard\">National Guard<\/a> administered the COVID-19 vaccine to multiple service members who were lined up for the influenza vaccine, including a member who objected to the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds, according to officials and one of the members.<\/p>\n<p>The incident took place in late 2021.<\/p>\n<p>During a vaccination clinic where both flu and COVID-19 vaccines were being administered,\u00a0\u201cthree service members were accidently given a COVID vaccine,\u201d\u00a0Maj. Carl Lamb, a spokesman for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-maine\">Maine<\/a> National Guard, told The Epoch Times in an email.<\/p>\n<p>Mathew Bernard, who is no longer with the Guard, has identified himself as one of the members.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard said he was ordered to receive an annual flu vaccine and went to the clinic to get that vaccine. He verified his name, date of birth, and part of his social security number, and told officials at the clinic he was there for the flu vaccine. But he was injected with a dose of a messenger RNA COVID-19 vaccine, officials told him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018You know how you went in for the flu shot? Well, that wasn\u2019t a flu shot. That was a COVID-19 vaccine,&#8217;\u201d Bernard told The Epoch Times, recounting the meeting with superiors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think, in my mind, at that point, it was like, I completely didn\u2019t know if I trusted any people in the military,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/mathew-bouchard.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4773723\"><\/a> Former Maine National Guardsman Mathew Bouchard. (Courtesy of Mathew Bouchard) Religious Objections <\/p>\n<p>Each branch of the military ordered members to get vaccinated, after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, a Biden appointee, in August of 2021 directed them to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Under federal law, medical and religious exemptions can be sought. The military has been using form letters with striking similarities to deny many religious exemption requests, federal judges have found, and several branches are blocked from taking punitive action against religious objectors.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Guard administered the COVID-19 vaccine to multiple service members who were lined up for the influenza vaccine, including a member who objected to the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds, according to officials and one of the members. The incident took place in late 2021. 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