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USAF Flies First COVID-19 Positive Patients with Isolation Pods

April 13, 2020 | By Brian W. Everstine
The Air Force employed its specially designed isolation pods to transport highly contagious COVID-19 positive patients from Afghanistan to Germany on April 10, the first use of the system in the new coronavirus outbreak, while the service is also developing a more advanced version of ...

Air Force Readying Isolation Pods for Transporting COVID-19 Patients

April 2, 2020 | By John A. Tirpak
Aeromedical flight crews are training at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., on an older isolation system for transporting highly infectious patients by air, even as the Air Force rapidly develops and tests a newer and more elaborate system for the mission. Testing on the C-17 is ...

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