Admiral Joyce Johnson On Coronavirus

The U.S. Military is on the frontlines of America's war with what is now its worst enemy--the coronavirus and the potentially deadly disease it can cause, COVID-19. The Defense Department is providing millions of N95 respirator masks and more than a dozen testing labs, Army scientists are hard at work on developing a vaccine, the Navy is preparing hospital ships for New York and California, the Air Force has evacuated U.S. citizens stranded on foreign soil, and the National Guard has been deployed in states around the country. And with the military stationed around the world in hard-hit countries such as Italy, Spain, and South Korea, and states including Washington, New York, California and Louisiana, military personnel are at least as susceptible as anyone to infection. In this edition of Catholic Military Life, the only official podcast of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, we learn more about this "invisible enemy" from Rear Admiral Dr. Joyce Johnson, USN (Ret.), a physician and infectious disease epidemiologist whose last duty assignment before retiring at the rank of rear admiral, upper half, was Director of Health and Safety for the U.S. Coast Guard. Dr. Johnson, a devout Catholic, serves on the AMS Finance Council.