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Reuters: Calls to military healthcare line jump 500 percent amid coronavirus

“Phone calls to the U.S. military health system nurse advice line have increased by about 500 percent in just the past few days amid the fast-spreading coronavirus, the director of the Defense Health Agency said on Thursday.”

“U.S. Army Lieutenant General Ronald Place told reporters at the Pentagon that the line was receiving almost 8,000 calls per days and sometimes over 10,000 calls…” Read the full article here.

Source: Calls to military healthcare line jump 500 percent amid coronavirus – March 19, 2020. Reuters.

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Jackie Gilbert is a Content Analyst for FedHealthIT and Author of 'Anything but COVID-19' on the Daily Take Newsletter for G2Xchange Health and FedCiv.

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