“This was an enormously valuable payload. It was like Fort Knox to us,” Gov. Larry Hogan said
Medical personnel from Montgomery County, Md., talks to members of the Army National Guard assisting in the drive-in testing of COVID-19 patients.Maryland’s Republican governor said that he has deployed both the state’s National Guard and the state police to protect the 500,000
tests he secured from seizure by the federal government and “whoever might interfere with us getting that to our folks who needed it.”“it was a little bit of a concern” that federal officials might confiscate the tests which. Hogan went on to say that reports of other incidents where federal officials attempted to or did confiscated coronavirus related equipment from states played a part in his thinking.
“There had been reports of, for example, in Massachusetts, Governor Charlie Baker told the story of his planeload that came in with masks wasby the federal government and he had to then get Robert Kraft, the owner of the [New England] Patriots to fly a second mission with a private plane to try to bring some of that equipment in. And there were a couple of other states that had similar stories,” the governor said.
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