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[quote=Anonymous]https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/coronavirus-pandemic-09-10-20-intl/index.html

Maryland has purchased 250,000 rapid antigen tests that will be deployed to locations where they are needed most, including nursing homes, correctional facilities and colleges, Gov. Larry Hogan announced in a news conference Thursday morning.

The state is a founding member of a bipartisan interstate testing compact for rapid point-of-care antigen testing in which five Democratic and five Republican governors have agreed to work with The Rockefeller Foundation to acquire and deploy five million antigen tests.

“This state of the art rapid testing will be critically important to our continued economic recovery and will help us to keep the people of our state safe. Our plan is to begin deploying these rapid tests to nursing homes and assisted living facilities in order to test all residents, staff, and visitors, and to our correctional and juvenile detention centers. [b]We’re also in discussions to send them to dormitories and campuses of our colleges and universities[/b],” he said
The new acquisition will help Maryland “tackle isolated outbreak and cluster scenarios” similar to what took place at some nursing homes and meat processing plants along the east coast during the coronavirus pandemic.

These are the governors who have signed onto the interstate compact:

Republicans:

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert
Democrats:

Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper
Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam[/quote]

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