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<p class="xmsonormal"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><img width="624" height="147" style="width:6.5in;height:1.5347in" id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image001.png@01D6CFC6.BF6E4F00"></span><span class="xeop"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xparagraph" style="background:white"><span class="xnormaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</span></span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="xparagraph" style="background:white"><span class="xnormaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">December 11, 2020</span></span><span class="xeop"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><u><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Open Sans"">Gov. Little increases Idaho National Guard response to battle COVID-19<o:p></o:p></span></u></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">Boise, Idaho – Governor Brad Little authorized an increase in Idaho National Guard support from 100 to up to 250 personnel serving on active duty in an effort to enhance medical capacity and COVID-19
response throughout Idaho. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">The authorization comes nearly a month after his executive order mobilizing 100 personnel for 30 days, coinciding with the public health order rolling Idaho back to a modified Stage 2 of the
</span><a href="https://rebound.idaho.gov/stages-of-reopening/"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">Idaho Rebounds</span></a><span style="font-family:"Open Sans""> plan.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">The new authorization also allows Guard personnel to continue performing their mission through March of 2021.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">For nearly a month, Guard personnel have been assisting at facilities across the state, from multiple hospital and medical clinic locations to food banks and public health district facilities.
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">Guard personnel are performing tasks that include COVID-19 testing and screening, patient data entry, traffic control, and facility decontamination and sanitization.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:105%"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">“As medical providers across the state continue to call on the Guard for assistance, this additional authorization enables our guardsmen to continue helping in the fight,” Governor
Little said. “With members of the Guard performing these missions, it </span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">frees up healthcare workers to focus on providing critical patient care. We are deeply grateful for their service.”
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<p class="xparagraph" align="center" style="text-align:center;background:white"><span class="xnormaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"># # #</span></span><span class="xeop"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans";color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-family:"Open Sans";color:#201F1E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xparagraph" style="background:white"><span class="xnormaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">NEWS MEDIA CONTACT: Emily Callihan, Communications Director</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="xparagraph" style="background:white"><span class="xnormaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">208-854-3032 or
</span></span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:Emily.Callihan@gov.idaho.gov"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans"">Emily.Callihan@gov.idaho.gov</span></a></span><span class="xnormaltextrun"><span style="font-family:"Open Sans";color:black">
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