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Governor Gordon Activates WY National Guard To Help COVID Problem At Hospitals
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Wyoming’s hospitals have sought additional support to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and the surge in hospitalized patients.
There are approximately 200 people with COVID-19 in Wyoming hospitals today, which is near the peak number the state has seen during the pandemic.
Governor Mark Gordon has activated guardsmen who have stepped forward to provide temporary assistance to hospitals throughout the state.
Governor Gordon has called approximately 95 Soldiers and Airmen to State Active Duty orders, assigned to hospital locations at 24 different sites within 17 Wyoming cities.
They will serve to augment current hospital and Wyoming Department of Health staff to help ease workloads imposed upon them due to large numbers of COVID-19 hospitalizations.
“I am grateful to the members of our Wyoming National Guard for once again answering the call to provide assistance in our hospitals during this surge,” Governor Gordon said. “Our Guard members truly are Wyoming’s sword and shield, and their commitment to our state is something for which every Wyoming citizen can be thankful.”
Guard members’ responsibilities will include: assisting in environmental cleanup in hospital facilities; food and nutrition service; COVID-19 screening; managing personal protective equipment (PPE) supplies; and other support tasks.
Some will also be trained to administer COVID-19 tests.
“The Delta variant has overwhelmed the medical institutions of states across this country. Our state is no different with most hospitals at or near capacity,” said Col. David Pritchett, director of the joint staff for the Wyoming National Guard. “The Soldiers and Airmen of the Wyoming National Guard are proud to jump back in to provide much needed assistance to our communities as we continue to battle the effects of COVID-19.”
The orders for guardsmen will be 14-30 day rotations, with the potential to extend beyond that, up until Dec. 31.
The numbers and locations of guardsmen may change based on hospital needs.
Clark Guelde
September 21, 2021 at 3:35 pm
How could this happen after we’ve been assured by so many social media doctors and nurses that Covid was “just like the flu” and that the real threat was the vaccine? People better wake up because if you get a bad case of Covid it will be you laying in a hospital bed on a ventilator and not the clown living in his mothers basement giving out medical advice about horse dewormer and pandering bizarre conspiracy theories about the vaccine. They don’t call the National Guard out for flu season.
ray olson
September 21, 2021 at 4:14 pm
Indeed many states have experienced an uptick in cases but the only states that are in crisis are the ones that are lead by Govs who are more concerned with placating Trump and his covifididiots than they are in protecting their constituents.