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- Daniel J Dire, Robert E Suter, Joe D Robinson, and W Scott Lynn.
- Surgeon, Joint Forces Land Component Command, United States Army North Headquarters, Fort Sam Houston, TX 78234, USA.
- Mil Med. 2021 Nov 2; 186 (11-12): 309-313.
AbstractThis article describes how the U.S. Army developed a new ad hoc medical formation, named Urban Augmentation Medical Task Force for the Department of Defense (DoD) in response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 pandemic in the Continental United States during the spring of 2020. We review the role of the DoD support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a part of Defense Support of Civilian Authorities.Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States 2021. This work is written by (a) US Government employee(s) and is in the public domain in the US.
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