Serilog Not Working After New Azure Release: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.InOutOfProcHelper' threw an exception

I currently am working on a .NET 4.8 project deployed using an Azure pipeline. This project uses Serilog to write logs to a SQL database, and has been doing this for some time. The Serilog logic listed below:

            //Initialize Logger
            Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
              .WriteTo.MSSqlServer(
                connectionString: ConfigurationManager.ConnectionStrings["SerilogConnection"].ConnectionString,
                sinkOptions: new MSSqlServerSinkOptions
                {
                    TableName = "WEB_APIS_LOGS",
                    SchemaName = "dbo",
                    AutoCreateSqlTable = false
                },
                columnOptions: columnOpts
              )
              .CreateLogger();

How Serilog is being used:

 Log.Logger.Write(logEventLevel, "{Entity}{EntityId}{@ValidationResult}", "SalesOrder", order.OrderId, order.Rules);

Last week I made a small change that doesn't effect any logging logic whatsoever, and after I deployed it via our Azure pipeline the logging no longer works. I tried reverting to an earlier release and that did nothing. I thought it may be because I changed the pipeline name around this time, but still no luck after reverting it back.

I enabled self logging for Serilog locally to see what popped up, and I got the error "The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.InOutOfProcHelper' threw an exception.". I am not sure if this is just a local issue or not, but it is the only clue I possibly have to what is wrong. I am able to connect to the database just fine and have not touched any project packages so I do not know why there would suddenly be issues after this specific release. This is the newest release in over a year so maybe that has something to do with it, but again no substantial changes were made to the code and none were made to the pipeline so I am completely lost.

Configuration: Web.config

     <system.web>
 <compilation debug="true" targetFramework="4.8" />
 <httpRuntime targetFramework="4.6.1" />
  </system.web>

Packages.config

  <package id="Microsoft.Data.SqlClient" version="5.0.1" targetFramework="net48" />

I added a Serilog debugging log file to the server and got this error, so it turns out it is a certificate issue.

Unable to write 1 log events to the database due to following error: A connection was successfully established with the server, but then an error occurred during the login process. (provider: SSL Provider, error: 0 - The certificate chain was issued by an authority that is not trusted.)