Published by admin on Thu, 12/16/2021 - 9:10am
Several states within the United States are requesting and receiving aid from the National Guard in combatting the coronavirus pandemic threatening to overwhelm hospitals. Maine, Michigan and Indiana were among the latest states to do so, according to a recent report in USA Today.
Last week about 75 National Guard members were deployed in Maine to help amid a pandemic high of 400 patients hospitalized with COVID. In New York, 120 Army medics and Air Force medical technicians were deployed to nursing homes and long-term care facilities.