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514th Ground Ambulance Handles COVID-19 Screening Site

Dec. 2, 2020

COVID-19 continues to challenge, Part 3

MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. — This is a four-part series on the symptoms, interventions, impacts and future relating to COVID-19. Watch this location for more installments. Madigan Army Medical Center on Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., first published a story on COVID-19 in January. The virus has consumed every day since; and it rages on. Where does that leave a pandemic-weary world?

On a recent visit to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Thomas McCaffery made a special stop at the Armed Services Blood Bank Center - Pacific Northwest.

Sept. 15, 2020

Collecting convalescent plasma to knock out COVID-19

MADIGAN ARMY MEDICAL CENTER, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. —  The world is searching for a treatment, a cure and a prevention for COVID-19. One piece of that puzzle may be tapped via the sap of human life – blood. At Madigan Army Medical Center, and 14 other Department of Defense facilities, those who have recovered from COVID-19 can donate the liquid part of their blood – the plasma – in an effort to apply it to use as a treatment for those battling the disease now. On a recent visit to Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs Thomas McCaffery made a special stop at the Armed Services Blood Bank Center - Pacific Northwest to talk to the staff about convalescent plasma and the DoD’s effort to collect 10,000 units by Sept. 30.

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