March 30, 2021 Respiratory care practitioner career field named 2020 Chief Richard L. Etchberger Team of The Year This year, the 2020 Chief Richard L. Etchberger award has been granted to the Air Force respiratory care practitioner career field for the incredible achievements made by the enlisted Airmen.
March 26, 2021 Nothing can stop an IDMT The Air Force is full of medical specialists who dedicate their lives to one specific aspect of care in order to ensure the well-being of service members and their families. There is one medical career field, however, that really does it all: that of an Independent Duty Medical Technician.
March 25, 2021 When two worlds collide On Feb. 6, 2021, Senior Airman Louis Shackelford’s civilian and military worlds collided.
March 24, 2021 Top Defense official calls military's COVID effort 'phenomenal' Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen H. Hicks praised the military's work in both the mission to protect DOD people and readiness, and the mission to support federal, state and local officials.
March 24, 2021 Deployed Flight Surgeon returns to 332nd AEW amidst COVID-19 response U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Russell Tontz, the oldest of 10 siblings, finds his way to the wing through a circuitous route.
March 23, 2021 Wright-Patt Airmen deploy for National vaccination effort Airmen from the 88th Air Base Wing’s Medical Group deployed to Detroit March 19 in support of a Department of Defense COVID-19 vaccination support operation.
March 18, 2021 SOUTHCOM International Health Specialists enhance impact of COVID-19 response donations through training, coordination International Health Specialists are collaborating with the Pan-American Health Organization, a regional component of the World Health Organization, to better mobilize, operate and sustain COVID-19 pandemic response donations to partner nations.
March 18, 2021 Air Force’s COVID-19 response - one year on the frontlines with a new enemy Since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic one year ago, U.S. Air Force medics, along with medical personnel across the country, were pushed to the frontlines of this battle with this novel, invisible enemy.
March 16, 2021 Eglin family doctor battles COVID-19 in Afghanistan Relied on medical training and residency experience as an inpatient care physician during six-month deployment.
March 12, 2021 36 MDG Public Health, Medical Readiness, Logistics Flights reflect to press on Every service member that enters the 36th Medical Group comes ready to perform their job, but is also assigned a wartime mission in a contingency response team, sometimes separate from their primary duty.
March 12, 2021 DOD teams administer 50K vaccines a day, 500,000 in less than a month Defense Department vaccination teams are doing their part to protect Americans, reaching the milestone of getting 500,000 shots in arms in under a month, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby said.
March 11, 2021 MHS GENESIS MassVax system rolling out with COVID-19 vaccines MHS GENESIS, the Department of Defense's new electronic health record system, has recently created a large digital record of COVID-19 vaccinations administered to service members and their families.
March 3, 2021 COVID-19: DOD vaccinates more than 1 million beneficiaries worldwide The Department of Defense has administered more than one million COVID-19 vaccinations.The milestone came as the United States surpassed 500,000 deaths from COVID-19 and just over two months after the Food and Drug Administration issued the first emergency use authorization for a vaccine for the
March 1, 2021 FDA issues emergency use authorization for third COVID-19 vaccine Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for the third vaccine for the prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The EUA allows the Janssen COVID-19 Vaccine to be
Feb. 26, 2021 Negative for Covid-19 The Negatively Pressured CONEX and NPC-Light. A solution of transforming existing 40-foot CONEX containers into air-mobile biocontainment isolation wards.
Feb. 26, 2021 DoD activates Fifteenth Air Force to expedite COVID-19 vaccine distribution Department of Defense members assembled Feb. 24 in Florida to provide flexible support to the Federal Emergency Management Agency as part of the whole-of-government response to COVID-19.Service members have temporarily been assigned to Fifteenth Air Force, under U.S. Northern Command’s Joint Force
Feb. 25, 2021 42nd MDG Airmen leave for deployment The 25 deployed Airmen, which included clinicians, nurses, pharmacy technicians, medical technicians, logisticians and administrative personnel, joined the 335th Air Expeditionary Group, comprised of nearly 150 Airmen from bases across the country. The 335th AEG will man a FEMA vaccination center in
Feb. 24, 2021 Defense Department has multiple priorities in COVID-19 battle When the COVID-19 virus spread to the United States, the Defense Department took on many roles: protecting its people, supporting the national pandemic response and ensuring the armed forces were ready to meet the national security mission.
Feb. 19, 2021 More options to get COVID-19 vaccine Are you and your family looking to get a COVID-19 vaccine near you? If so, you’ll soon have more options for where you can go to get it. As part of the ongoing response to COVID-19, the federal government has launched the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program for COVID-19 Vaccination. This new program is
Feb. 19, 2021 ARNORTH oversees military COVID-19 vaccination support to FEMA in four states, one territory U.S. Army North, U.S. Northern Command's Joint Force Land Component Command, has overseen the Department of Defense's COVID-19 response operation in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services since March 2020.