The Summer 2021 issue of Combat & Casualty Care takes a look at the state of proactive contagion protection in the wake of 18 months of the world’s COVID reality:

Editorial Features include:

• Defense Health Agency director LTG Ronald Place, on Vaccine Implementation Plan and continued MHS GENESIS roll-out
• Army Medical Materiel Development Activity’s (USAMMDA) Warfighter Protection and Acute Care Project Management Office,  product manager Calli Rooney, on COVID-19 point-of-care antigen detection and Rapid Human Diagnostics (RHD) program
• MAJ Jeffrey Kugelman, director of the Center for Genome Sciences, on next-generation sequencing to expand COVID-19 testing efforts
• Army Medical Research and Development Command’s (USAMRDC) Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC), Medical Modeling, Simulation and Informatics Visualization division, led by Geoffrey Miller, and a newly launched NEXUS Lab
• Lieutenant Colonel Jean G.R. Leroux, Directorate Air Requirements for the Canadian Armed Forces, on Aeromedical Bio-containment Evacuation System or ABES
• Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) on coordination with U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) for pandemic supplies replacement
• Industry Perspective on the development of universal contagion test kitting for inclusion in combat medic supply packs