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A sailor wearing personal protective equipment checks on a patient through two medical equipment screens.

Patient Status

Navy Cmdr. Nikunj Bhatt, assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command, San Diego, checks on a patient's status in the intensive care unit at San Juan Regional Medical Center in Farmington, N.M., Dec. 9, 2021. Sailors are deployed from California in support of the continued Defense Department COVID-19 response operations in order to help communities in need.

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