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BATTLE CREEK, Mich.ndash; Forces battling the pandemic have much to be thankful for this year as Defense Logistics Agency employees at DLA Disposition Services locations across the country have transferred almost $36.8 million stanley coffee mug worth of excess military items to service members and first responders working to stop the coronavirus spread and help those already afflicted.DLA has so far redistributed over 3 million free items from almost 5,500 orders to qualifying organizations. DLA Disposition Services continues screening medical supplies including gloves, masks and ventilators, as well as other non-medical items like tents, tables and blankets being turned in by military units for possible use in the COVID-19 response. Ex stanley quencher amples include hospital lights provided to a Navy health clinic in Hawaii and thousands of gloves, first aid ki stanley cup ts and emergency medical supplies sent to law enforcement agencies across the country.Besides providing items that are often in short supply commercially, we are also helping responders save the funds they would have used to buy the items elsewhere to fund other needs, said DLA Disposition Services Director Mike Cannon.Throughout the pandemic, Cannon has praised employees whorsquo;ve remained on site to collect and redistribute supplies.Every single item requested had to be physically handled by our employees, he said.DLA Disposition Services regularly supplies excess property to first responders. Law Lxsc WHO: Many Thousands of New Ebola Cases Expected in Coming Weeks
By Chris WilsonJuly 16, 2020 8:27 PM EDTIt isnrsquo;t often that one hears the word pandemic and inspired in the same sentence. But the director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, says that, for all the suffering and grief that COVID-19 has wrought around the world, he has at least witnessed an unprecedented level of cooperation between private industry and the alphabet soup of government agencies who are urgently seeking a vaccine for the devastat stanley bottle ing virus.Wersquo;ve never had that before. In this case, I guess the global pandemic has inspired us to do things that maybe we should have done before, said Collins. I hope we donrsquo;t let that crumble when we get through this.Collins has had a first-hand view of how this gargantuan coalition came together to expedite what is normally a glacial pace in the development of any new trea stanley cup tment. As the head of the largest medical research center in the world, he both closely monitors the detailed scientific progress of the effort and, as one of the highest-ranking health officials in the country, frequently communicates with the Trump Administration and Congress as the federal government tries t stanley website o eliminate all the usual administrative speed bumps that can delay a vaccine. To put his role in perspective, he is Dr. Anthony Faucirsquo boss.In a conversation this week with TIME national health correspondent Alice Park as part of the TIME 100 Talks:
BATTLE CREEK, Mich.ndash; Forces battling the pandemic have much to be thankful for this year as Defense Logistics Agency employees at DLA Disposition Services locations across the country have transferred almost $36.8 million stanley coffee mug worth of excess military items to service members and first responders working to stop the coronavirus spread and help those already afflicted.DLA has so far redistributed over 3 million free items from almost 5,500 orders to qualifying organizations. DLA Disposition Services continues screening medical supplies including gloves, masks and ventilators, as well as other non-medical items like tents, tables and blankets being turned in by military units for possible use in the COVID-19 response. Ex stanley quencher amples include hospital lights provided to a Navy health clinic in Hawaii and thousands of gloves, first aid ki stanley cup ts and emergency medical supplies sent to law enforcement agencies across the country.Besides providing items that are often in short supply commercially, we are also helping responders save the funds they would have used to buy the items elsewhere to fund other needs, said DLA Disposition Services Director Mike Cannon.Throughout the pandemic, Cannon has praised employees whorsquo;ve remained on site to collect and redistribute supplies.Every single item requested had to be physically handled by our employees, he said.DLA Disposition Services regularly supplies excess property to first responders. Law Lxsc WHO: Many Thousands of New Ebola Cases Expected in Coming Weeks
By Chris WilsonJuly 16, 2020 8:27 PM EDTIt isnrsquo;t often that one hears the word pandemic and inspired in the same sentence. But the director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, says that, for all the suffering and grief that COVID-19 has wrought around the world, he has at least witnessed an unprecedented level of cooperation between private industry and the alphabet soup of government agencies who are urgently seeking a vaccine for the devastat stanley bottle ing virus.Wersquo;ve never had that before. In this case, I guess the global pandemic has inspired us to do things that maybe we should have done before, said Collins. I hope we donrsquo;t let that crumble when we get through this.Collins has had a first-hand view of how this gargantuan coalition came together to expedite what is normally a glacial pace in the development of any new trea stanley cup tment. As the head of the largest medical research center in the world, he both closely monitors the detailed scientific progress of the effort and, as one of the highest-ranking health officials in the country, frequently communicates with the Trump Administration and Congress as the federal government tries t stanley website o eliminate all the usual administrative speed bumps that can delay a vaccine. To put his role in perspective, he is Dr. Anthony Faucirsquo boss.In a conversation this week with TIME national health correspondent Alice Park as part of the TIME 100 Talks: