American Military News by Chicago Tribune - Stacy St. Clair May 02, 2020
After years of fighting alongside the Illinois National Guard, the Polish military deploys a team to help fight COVID-19 in the Chicago area
For the past 17 years, the Polish military has served alongside Illinois National Guard members in Iraq and Afghanistan as their armies battle an unconventional, hard-to-break enemy.
So when Polish military officials saw the state fighting the coronavirus — a novel and aggressive adversary in its own right — they assembled some of their leading medical experts and flew them nearly 5,000 miles to help.
A nine-member Polish medical team arrived in Chicago last week, armed with best practices and lessons learned from treating COVID-19 patients in both Poland and in Lombardy, Italy, one of Europe’s hardest-hit regions. At in-person visits to hospitals across the Chicago area and a series of webinars, they have shared warnings about increased suicide rates, tips for post-shift decontamination and ideas on how to reopen hospitals when the crisis ebbs.
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