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A group of approximately 75 Department of Defense medical personnel have deployed to a handful of California hospitals in two of the state’s regions hardest hit by the pandemic.
Roughly 65 U.S. Air Force doctors, nurses and other medical staff from the 60th Medical Group at Travis Air Force Base and around 10 U.S. Army nurses from a Fort Carson, Colorado-based military medical unit, have arrived and begun onboarding at four hospitals: Adventist Health Lodi Memorial in Lodi, Dameron Hospital in Stockton, Community Regional Medical Center in Fresno and Arrowhead Regional Medical Center in Colton.
The deployment comes as California and the entire country is experiencing a devastating surge in COVID-19 cases. The hospitals selected are located in the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California, two regions of the state with 0% ICU bed capacity and currently under mandatory stay-at-home orders. On Tuesday, those orders were extended.
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Air Force and Army military medical personnel, including doctors, nurses, and respiratory technicians, began their orientation at Community Regional Medical Center Tuesday morning.
The military reinforcements are among the Department of Defense medical teams being sent into four California hospitals to provide medical support alongside hospital staff as patient loads surge.
“Their primary mission is to support the intensive care unit,” says Fresno County EMS Director Dan Lynch.
“I’m very worried about the next few weeks.”–
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The arrival of the military support teams is a bright spot in an otherwise dark period due to escalating COVID infections in Fresno County. California’s Department of Public Health extended the regional stay at home orders for both the San Joaquin Valley and Southern California regions on Tuesday.