Federal disaster medical teams deployed as Texas cases surge

DMAT members have already been sent to a couple of Texas cities, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Alex Azar confirmed Thursday.

“We’ve already sent teams to San Antonio. We’ve sent medical disaster teams, doctors and nurses into Houston, and we’re going to keep fulfilling governor Abbott’s requests there to make sure the people of Texas are supported through this,” Azar told Houston’s ABC13.

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Federal medical teams will also be deployed in the cities of Dallas, Austin, Laredo, Midland and McAllen. The teams include doctors, physicians assistants, nurses, nurses aides, nurse practitioners, respiratory therapists and paramedics, CBS Dallas Fort-Worth reported.

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