The committee responsible for providing feedback on containment labs at Fort Detrick has concerns about the transparency of information the Army base provides to the committee.
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Since 1969, the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) at Fort Detrick, Md., has been using science and technology to address biological threats to U.S. military personnel.
“While it’s an Army lab, within the DoD construct, a lot of the research that goes on here has wider applicability that protects the American public,” said Col. E. Darrin Cox, M.D., USAMRIID’s former commander. “Our specialty, or our core competency, lies in high-consequence pathogens,” Cox said.
“We’ve maintained our core mission of developing medical countermeasures against those high-consequence pathogens,” Cox said. “Certainly, COVID is a high-consequence pathogen from the standpoint of the havoc it’s wreaking on the healthcare of the nation and the world, and economically.”
It’s been a year since COVID-19 cases first appeared in the state and Anne Arundel County. Across Maryland, military units from the Maryland National Guard to the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command started responding to the health crisis, finding ways to support testing, treatment and, ultimately, vaccination.
It’s been a year since COVID-19 cases first appeared in the state and Anne Arundel County. Across Maryland, military units from the Maryland National Guard to the U.S. Army Medical Research and Development Command started responding to the health crisis, finding ways to support testing, treatment and, ultimately, vaccination.