Alliance for Pandemic Preparedness

June 5, 2020

COVID-19 Monitoring and Response Among U.S. Air Force Basic Military Trainees – Texas, March-April 2020

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  • Seven weeks of non-pharmaceutical interventions (quarantine, social distancing, early screening of trainees, isolation, monitored reentry for cases) among recruits in a Basic Military Training setting at a US Air Force Base successfully contained SARS-CoV-2. Only 5 out of over 10,000 trainees tested positive, and 3 were contacts of the first case.   

Marcus et al. (June 5, 2020). COVID-19 Monitoring and Response Among U.S. Air Force Basic Military Trainees – Texas, March-April 2020. MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. https://doi.org/10.15585/mmwr.mm6922e2