Elkhart man joining ‘COVID Care Force’ to help in the fight against the disease

ELKHART, Ind.- A local man is traveling across the nation to fight on the front lines of the pandemic.

Aaron Mishler is an Elkhart nurse, who previously fought Ebola in Liberia and traveled to Haiti to treat those hurt by Hurricane Matthew, is now volunteering for an organization called COVID Care Force.

COVID Care Force is a large group of volunteer healthcare professionals that “deploy to areas of critical healthcare staffing shortages due to the COVID-19 pandemic.”

On joining COVID Care Force, Mishler said, “It’s the right thing to do and I always hope that if our community was impacted by a pandemic or natural disaster that the good folks around the world would come to help us out.”

Mishler is also running for statehouse in Elkhart House District 48.