What a difference a couple of years make. From DoS FOIA reading room; 'Coronavirus' as search term. While not the novel coronavirus….in 2015 some contractor guy was diagnosed with coronavirus while in Iraq and the recommendation was GASP a day in bed! Oh the horror.

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