This presentation will address readiness for deployment as well as a national emergency or global pandemic. The discussion will include contingency operations, emergency supplies, supply chain, and medical capabiities.
Learning Objectives:
Summarize overseas medical capabilities to respond to global pandemics and contingency operations.
Describe the impact the COVID-19 global pandemic has made on the medical supply chain.
Discuss the need to redefine readiness to include defending the homeland as well as dominating overseas.