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Due to COVID-19, MTFs have varying procedures for facility entrance. Allow extra time when planning a visit. Health services at military facilities may be limited for up to 60 days beginning March 31. Please call your specific clinic for the best information. To assist in social distancing, you may also consider switching your prescriptions to TRICARE Pharmacy Home Delivery.

The Department of Health and Human Service’s Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans recommends at least 150 minutes of moderately intense aerobic activity per week and two sessions of strength training per week. (U.S. Air Force graphic)

Between 5,000 and 8,000 blood serum, fecal, urine, viral and respiratory samples arrive six days a week from U.S. Air Force hospitals and clinics worldwide, as well as some other Department of Defense facilities, for analysis at the Epidemiology Laboratory Service, also known as the "Epi Lab" at the 711th Human Performance Wing’s United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine and Public Health at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio.The lab is a Department of Defense reference laboratory offering clinical diagnostic, public health, and force health screening and testing. (U.S. Air Force photo by J.M. Eddins Jr.)

Air Force lab testing samples of COVID-19

A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III is prepped to transport a transportation isolation system March 6, 2019, during a training exercise that allows Airmen to practice the most effective and safest form of transportation for patients and their medical professionals. Engineered and implemented after the Ebola virus outbreak in 2014, the TIS is an enclosure the Department of Defense can use to safely transport patients with highly contagious diseases. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Cody R. Miller)

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USAFSAM trains teams to treat, transport COVID-19 patients

A portrait of an Air Force nurse wearing facial protective gear.

An AFMS look back at March 2020

With news of the contagious and potentially deadly illness known as novel coronavirus grabbing headlines worldwide, military health officials say that an informed, common sense approach minimizes the chances of getting sick. (Graphic by Military Health System)

Lori Elliott, 325th Operational Medical Readiness Squadron dental technician, examines a patient at Tyndall Air Force Base, Mar. 4, 2020. Dental assistants are recognized for the critical part they play in patient care. (U.S. Air Force photo by 2nd Lt. Kayla Fitzgerald)

Medical, dental elective procedures will be postponed 60 days due to COVID-19

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