• USAFSAM continues to train medical students while helping them stay safe

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The 2019 novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, has demonstrated the capacity to spread globally. The Department of the Air Force is responding appropriately to protect the health of the force and maintain operational readiness.The best way to prevent illness is to

  • Bring Them Home: USAFSAM trains teams to treat, transport COVID-19 patients

    JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. – Medical professionals from the United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine are training medics here on the use of the Transport Isolation System to move patients affected by COVID-19 aboard military cargo aircraft.The TIS is an infectious disease containment

  • Air Force lab testing samples of COVID-19

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – The United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine’s epidemiology laboratory is the Air Force’s sole clinical reference laboratory, and as such, is testing and processing samples of COVID-19 sent from military treatment facilities around the world.The

  • Wright-Patterson forms incident command center for COVID-19 response

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – In an effort to minimize the spread of the Coronavirus disease 2019 and to prioritize the health and safety of all base personnel and members of our communities, base officials formed a COVID-19 Incident Command Center (ICC) March 23 at the Wright-Patterson

  • Wright-Patterson medics deploy to Guyana

    WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio – Medical expertise from the 88th Surgical Operations Squadron here was deployed to provide medical procedures for patients in Guyana. Their deployment to Guyana was part of a larger U.S. Southern Command New Horizons exercise, which ran from May 13 to August