If life were a movie, a grizzled Richard “Ric” Ricciardi would have been splitting firewood at the end of a long driveway when Department of Defense officials drove up and told him the world needed him to come back to work. It wasn’t that dramatic, but the DOD certainly caught Ricciardi off guard when it asked for his help to lead COVID-19 operations and public health response at General Leonard Wood Army Community Hospital at Fort Leonard Wood in Missouri.
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