Military doctors shore up exhausted health teams in US south amid Covid surge

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/07/covid-us-south-military-doctors

Military doctors shore up exhausted health teams in US south amid Covid surge

Maya Yang and agencies
Tue 7 Sep 2021 11.00 BST

Military doctors and other federal emergency personnel are shoring up exhausted health teams in some parts of the US south where low vaccination rates are fueling the latest Covid-19 crisis.

As many hospitals struggle to avoid being overwhelmed, one hospital in Louisiana praised Pentagon medics for helping them cope, while health officials in Mississippi reported that four pregnant women died of Covid-19 in one a hospital there, and the governor of Kentucky called the situation in his state “dire”.

In a press briefing last week, the White House announced that as part of its Covid-19 surge response team, it has deployed over 350 EMTs, doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals to Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama to provide emergency medical care.

The response teams are also working with 18 states “pulling in personnel, resources, supplies, and expertise from across the federal government, including from Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Department of Defense, and the Veterans Affairs to address state specific needs.”
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1. Salute to the US Response Teams facing the COVID tidal wave

and shame upon the Republicans and Russians who are causing the spread of this deadly disease and thereby killing and maiming Americans with their evil lies and deceitful propaganda.