MARCH 10, 2021 - Brooke Army Medical Center opened a new infusion clinic to help high risk COVID-19 patients with moderate to mild symptoms at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas. The treatment involves IV infusion of investigational antibody medications that are not Food and Drug Administration approved but are authorized under an FDA emergency use … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2021
Nipah Virus Could Be the Next Pandemic
MARCH 9, 2021 - For years, scientists have warned the Nipah virus -- a brain-swelling disease 75 times more deadly than COVID -- could be the next pandemic. Knowing that this fruit bat-borne virus has the potential to trigger an epidemic, researchers at the Uniformed Services University (USU) have long studied the virus and recently reported on the development of a single-dose … [Read more...]
Test Like We Fight
MARCH 9, 2021 - Orange Flag, the large force test event carried out three times annually by Air Force Test Center’s 412th Test Wing, combined with the 53rd Wing’s Black Flag, bringing a first for the test community March 2-4. Both central to achieving Joint All-Domain Command and Control, the two test capabilities combined their mission planning processes and streamlined … [Read more...]
2020 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey Results Are In
MARCH 9, 2021 - The 2020 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey was administered by the Office of Personnel Management to full and part-time, permanent, Department of the Air Force civilian employees from Sept. 15 to Oct. 28, 2020. The FEVS measures employees’ perceptions in critical areas such as work experiences, their agency, and leadership. Index scores for Employee Engagement … [Read more...]
Arctic Readiness Tested With Cold-Weather Exercise
MARCH 9, 2021 - The 402nd Army Field Support Battalion-Alaska spent the month of February testing, identifying and documenting the breaking point of equipment and systems used by units in Alaska in an extreme arctic environment. “Arctic Warrior 21, also referred to as AW21, was a first-of-its-kind training exercise aimed at validating America's Arctic Warriors' ability to … [Read more...]