This applies to ALL recruits who have tested positive for COVID-19, not just those who have been hospitalized.
This is interim guidance.
A “permanent disqualifying” status does NOT mean you’re barred from serving in the military. There are numerous conditions that can apply the “permanently disqualified” status, but for many of them, a recruit can apply for and receive a medical waiver.
The most likely explanation in my mind is that they’re establishing an interim disqualifying status until we know more about long-term pathologies, and until they can establish the processes and parameters of when or if a medical waiver may be granted.
Because the military understands, unlike my dumbfuck Millenial-bro neighbors and their kids having pool parties each weekend, that even young otherwise healthy people can experience permanent lung, kidney, and liver damage from COVID-19. Never mind the strokes. Sure the death count for young people is lower, but COVID will still fuck your shit up, permanently.
It is well established that survivors can have long term chronic conditions Involving heart, lungs & kidneys whether they were hospitalized or not. It is becoming more clear that vascular coagulopathy is part of clinical pathogenesis of CoVID19. This results in chronic long term condition with diminished function of heart, lungs, kidney as well as possible neurological deficits…
While there is disproportionate mortality of minorities there is no data that as a group minority’s are more susceptible to CoV rather if they do contract the disease course is more likely to be severe.
I certainly defer to those with military experience on this.
I would like to know what the enlistment data is for the last 10 years. Numbers up or down, what’s the trend?
That’s what I was thinking of separate from the Covid mark off for enlistment. Just wondering what the 10 year trend was in enlistment and the downsizing in general. No particular reason, just curious.