My former hometown has National Guard deployed in the healthcare system [View all]

Members of the Tennessee National Guard headed to a couple of hospitals in East Tennessee to help staff amid the recent surge in COVID-19 cases. Lt. Col. Justin Olander, the Joint Task Force Medical Commander, said 20 members were deployed to Morristown-Hamblen Healthcare System.

“The hospitals that have us currently are in desperate need of assistance staff augmentation. And so we’re ensuring that we have, that the limited resources that we have, are allocated to the hospitals that need it most,” Olander said.

Olander’s teams were deployed to areas hit hardest by staffing shortages and rising COVID-19 cases in Tennessee. He said his crews were sent mostly to East Tennessee and West Tennessee.

“If you look at the number of cases, those are definitely higher areas of COVID-positive cases and hospitalizations,” Olander said.

https://www.wate.com/news/tn-national-guard-members-deployed-to-morristown-hamblen-healthcare-system/
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Meanwhile, masks are optional in local schools, the entire 7th grade at my grandson's middle school is either out sick or quarantined so it's virtual, and contact tracing has been stopped in the middle and high schools there. WTF, Hamblen County?