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handle is hein.crs/govefmq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: s Congressional a Research Service Military Response to Omicron and COVID-19: Federal Armed Forces and National Guard Updated March 28, 2022 On November 26, 2021, the World Health Organization designated the Omicron mutation of the SARS- CoV-2 virus a variant of concern. Since then, Omicron has become the dominant strain of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the United States. After a case surge from December 2021 through mid- January 2022, COVID-19 cases in the United States have dropped, with hospitalizations and deaths following the same trend after a short delay. The deployment of military and National Guard personnel remains an issue for Congress given the role they both played in responding to the Omicron COVID-19 surge and the role that they might play in the event of a future surge of a new variant. Deployments of Federal Armed Forces for Hospital Support The U.S. Army North, U.S. Northern Command's Joint Force Land Component Command, manages the Department of Defense's COVID-19 response operation in support of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services. Since August 2021, approximately 1,275 military medical personnel from the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy are continuing to work alongside civilian healthcare providers in civilian hospitals, helping treat COVID-19 patients in a total of 30 states and the Navajo Nation. Figure 1 shows U.S. Army North's COVID-19 deployments for hospital support starting January 1, 2022. Congressional Research Service https://crsreports. congress.gov IN11867 CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress -