{"id":65266,"date":"2020-07-06T20:32:30","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T20:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2020\/07\/06\/macdill-air-force-reservists-return-from-fighting-covid-19-in-new-york\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:54:03","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:54:03","slug":"macdill-air-force-reservists-return-from-fighting-covid-19-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/news\/2020\/07\/06\/macdill-air-force-reservists-return-from-fighting-covid-19-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"MacDill Air Force reservists return from fighting COVID-19 in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reservists from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macdill.af.mil\/\" target=_blank>MacDill Air Force Base<\/a> in Tampa, Florida, are coming out of quarantine after returning from fighting COVID-19 in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a hectic time<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/04\/03\/dod-expands-care-to-covid-19-patients-in-three-locations\/\" target=_blank> when they first arrived<\/a>, but responders were happy with the condition of the hospitals as they were leaving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 927th Air Refueling Wing sent eight medics to New York to be a part of 281 Air Force reserve medical professionals who volunteered and saw more than 37,000 patients between mid-April and June. They sent an additional dozen Aeromedical Evacuation Airmen across the nation for other COVID-19 relief missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI did see the situation change, and for the better,\u201d said Capt. Sarilia Therildor, a nurse with the 927th Air Refueing Wing, based at MacDill. \u201cIt\u2019s funny, I did interviews at the beginning and we said we would beat the disease. By the time we were leaving two and a half months later, it seems like that was the case.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In New York, she went through a short orientation and was quickly sent to a hospital and put into the ER working 12-hour days \u2014 which she said made it easier, being in her area of expertise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Therildor said the hospital was already down on medical staff because they were dying on a weekly basis due to COVID. In addition, a lot of patients were coming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe patients coming in were really sick, and a lot of them were waiting to come in because they didn\u2019t want to be exposed which made their symptoms even worse,\u201d she said. And there were often situations where their families could not accompany them into the hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After one of her interviews, someone contacted Therildor on Facebook to check on their family member \u2014 something she couldn\u2019t do for them because of HIPAA regulations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat was bothersome, because their family member was in the ICU and they said they hadn\u2019t heard from anyone for days,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m not able to reach out to the person and let them know what I was going to do but I did relay that information to our team leader.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another problem that arose with people waiting to come into the hospital fearing exposure to the virus was that they would ignore other potentially life-threatening health issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One patient came in with deep vein thrombosis, a condition where a blood clot forms in a vein deep in the body. Waiting to get treatment, his condition worsened, and he developed a pulmonary embolism, where he had a clot in his lungs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHe came in complaining of lower extremity swelling but the issue he was facing was life threatening,\u201d Therildor said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another patient came in having mini strokes while medical staff was trying to process her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is another aspect of COVID that providers had to be dealing with. There were other patients with problems, and they didn\u2019t want to come into the hospital because of COVID but their health issues were just as concerning,\u201d said Therildor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To be able to fit the number of patients they were receiving, the hospitals were doing some \u201cpretty unique stuff,\u201d said Col. Jennifer Ratcliff, the 927th Aerospace Medicine Squadron Commander. They turned recovery and old ER rooms into intensive care units, for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t know how they were doing what they were doing,\u201d she said. \u201cThey were lower [on staff] than normal with way more patients than normal. There was no doubt they needed our help when we got there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When the reservists first arrived, Ratcliff\u2019s role was to assemble them into teams and get them out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2020\/04\/14\/with-empty-beds-at-the-javits-center-and-on-the-comfort-uniformed-health-workers-are-going-straight-into-nyc-hospitals\/\" target=_blank>hospitals across New York<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt the time no one had a plan for us,\u201d she said. \u201cThey needed somebody to put all of the teams together, so I started in a leadership role getting those teams prepared to go out to the area hospitals based on what they wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After that, Ratcliff worked in the ER until things slowed down a little bit, then going back to maintaining her leadership role in handling people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By the time they left, Ratcliff said the staffing had improved almost back to normal at the hospitals and the number of patients coming in was much lower. The typical ER population was restored, and they were able to start opening up other parts of the hospital to see non-COVID-related patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI certainly feel like we didn\u2019t leave at a time that the city still needed us,\u201d she said. \u201cThe work that we needed to do I think we completed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ratcliff said she was notified of her deployment a day in advance, flew out, and was in the hospital within a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou generally have a lot of time, at least usually a couple months to get your life in order,\u201d she said. But \u201cwhen you\u2019re needed somewhere the military knows how to get you there in a very timely and fluid process.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said it wasn\u2019t a total surprise, as there was an executive order, some emails going around and a survey to see if you were fighting COVID in your fulltime job \u2014 some \u201crumblings\u201d that something might happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ratcliff is an orthopedic surgeon at the Orlando VA in her civilian life, and with minimal elective surgeries happening at the time, things were a little slow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt was fairly good timing in that my practice didn\u2019t really need anything,\u201d she said. \u201cI did more work to fight COVID in New York than I would have staying in Orlando.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Therildor was happy to get the orders to quickly get out to New York and start helping as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI joined the Air Force because I wanted to give back,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is the moment we wait for, the moment we\u2019re called to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A survey was sent out in March to vet and select reserve citizen airmen who volunteered to support the mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat would that medical professional provide in New York City and was the need there greater than in their civilian profession,\u201d said Sean Houlihan, an AFRC public affairs division chief. \u201cThere were probably many more volunteers that we had but we did not deploy because they needed to stay where they were doing their civilian jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And this was no ordinary mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Air Force Reserve stands ready to surge in support of the COVID-19 response,\u201d Lt. 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We must do all we can to take care of Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFrom our IMAs to our Reserve medics, I couldn\u2019t be prouder of this incredible Reserve team who stepped up quickly to answer our nation\u2019s call,\u201d Scobee said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reservists were tested for COVID on their way out of New York, self-quarantined for more than two weeks, and were tested again before being able to return to their everyday lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MacDill Air Force reservists from the 927th Aerospace Medicine Squadron are coming out of quarantine after fighting COVID-19 in New 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