Less than two months after Pete Hegseth dropped the flu vaccine mandate, an outbreak occurred at a U.S. Air Force base.

A flu outbreak at a basic training facility for the Air Force in San Antonio, Texas, is growing to at least 222 cases and four hospitalizations.

A summer influenza outbreak didn't break epidemiology, it affirmed everything we know

Hegseth had announced a vaccine rollback in April and described the mandate as an issue of "medical autonomy" and religious freedom.