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Military.com
The massive $330 billion coronavirus relief bill expected to be approved by the Senate contains $19.57 billion for the Department of Veterans Affairs to ensure that veterans are receiving the care they need during the current pandemic.
According to a release from Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, $15.85 billion of the VA-marked funds will go to the Veterans Health Administration to cover treatment for veterans with COVID-19 at VA hospitals, civilian urgent care clinics and emergency rooms.
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TRICARE
With mounting worry and fear about the current outbreak of coronavirus, it's worth taking a pause to look at how to mitigate some of the emotional and behavioral effects that might come from media coverage and the threat of coronavirus.
To learn more, read the full article.
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Connecting Vets
Department of Veterans Affairs leaders said recently that the agency had enough staff to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the department also put out a call to retired VA doctors, nurses and other medical staff: "We need you." "Help us in the battle against the COVID-19 pandemic," social media posts from the department read. "Consider VA re-employment. Dual compensation waivers will be available."
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Task & Purpose
For the first time in its 48-year history, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences will graduate its fourth-year medical school students and graduate-level nurses early to support the U.S. military's war on COVID-19.
Roughly 170 medical students and 60 graduate nursing students will depart USUHS in Bethesda, Maryland, between April 1 and April 17, to support the Defense Department's coronavirus pandemic response.
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Military.com
Dire early numbers on jobs from the Labor Department for March and even more alarming figures from the states point to the obvious in the age of coronavirus: historic spikes in unemployment rates that could hit the post-9/11 generation of veterans especially hard. "We know it's coming; everybody does," Thomas Porter, executive vice president for government affairs at Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, said of the expected jump in unemployment rates when the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases the final numbers for March in the first week of April.
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Penn State News
Compared to veterans of other wars, those who have served since 9/11 have the highest unemployment rate, particularly among young male veterans. Within the first three months of disconnecting from active duty service, more than half of post-9/11 veterans reported using at least one program designed to enhance their job prospects, according to researchers at Penn State.
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By Amanda Ghosh
 More than 50% of adults experience insomnia. Unfortunately, a lack of sleep isn't just annoying; it's deadly. Sleep deprivation increases your risk for accidents, heart attack, diabetes, and other scary maladies. If you're not getting at least seven hours of sleep each night, you may want to invest in this sleep trick.
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Air Force Magazine
President Donald Trump on March 21 signed a bill into law that will ensure GI Bill benefits aren’t suspended for college programs forced to switch to distance learning because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Without the bill, tuition, housing, and subsistence allowances might have had to be suspended when schools switch from classroom to distance learning formats.
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Military Times
The Defense Department has placed hundreds of medical personnel on alert and ordered the deployment of two hospital ships to help public health agencies shore up their capacity as the coronavirus pandemic threatens to overwhelm community hospitals.
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