A Onetime Germ-Warfare Site Is Army’s Front Line in Coronavirus Battle - News Summed Up

A Onetime Germ-Warfare Site Is Army’s Front Line in Coronavirus Battle


SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS How well do you think the process of developing a coronavirus vaccine is working? While the institute at Fort Detrick is producing virus strains, it won’t produce coronavirus vaccines—but rather help test them. During the Cold War, Fort Detrick once served as a U.S. biological warfare site. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy, right, and Gen. James McConville, center, on a tour of a lab at Fort Detrick. Last summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suspended work at Fort Detrick after it found lapses in health-security practices.


Source: Wall Street Journal March 22, 2020 14:15 UTC



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