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<\/figure>FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\nCapt. Ben Hughes
Maryland National Guard Public Affairs Office
ng.md.mdarng.list.pao@mail.mil<\/a>
Phone: 667-296-3662<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\nBALTIMORE \u2014 At the direction of Governor Larry Hogan, up to 1,000 Soldiers and Airmen of the Maryland National Guard will be activated to assist state and local health officials with the state\u2019s COVID-19 response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guard members will support the Maryland Department of Health and other state agencies with missions for COVID-19 testing, supporting local hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, and assisting with non-life-threatening patient transport during the state of emergency due to a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations.
The MDNG support will be tailored to the needs at each site and the mission details are in the process of being set with MDH and the local medical facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/7002025-1024x681.jpg\")
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Timothy Gowen, the adjutant general of Maryland, speaks at a press conference on Jan. 4, 2022, at the Coordinated Highway Action Response Team Statewide Operations Center in Hanover, Maryland. At the direction of Governor Larry Hogan, up to 1,000 Soldiers and Airmen of the Maryland National Guard were activated to assist state and local health officials with the state\u2019s Covid-19 response. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Chris Schepers)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\u201cIf one characteristic has epitomized the Maryland National Guard\u2019s response to COVID-19, it has been adaptability,\u201d said U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Timothy E. Gowen, adjutant general for Maryland. \u201cTime and again, we have rapidly pivoted to meet the needs of the community as new challenges arose. This activation is no different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Forty MDNG Soldiers already on duty supporting the Vaccine Equity Task Force were reassigned to support COVID-19 testing sites at the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health in Bel Air and at Luminis Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis on Dec. 30, 2021. Additional members began mobilizing this week, and will soon begin training relating to their specific assignments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The MDNG will assist with opening 20 hospital-adjacent testing sites across the state to help divert people from visiting hospital emergency rooms and to meet the rising demand for COVID-19 testing. Support at each location will be tailored to meet the needs on-site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last year, Guard members supported the state\u2019s COVID-19 response at mass vaccinations sites throughout the state, at local health department sites with mobile vaccination support teams, and through the Vaccine Equity Task Force, which ensured the equitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine. Soldiers also supported testing sites across Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis is our third calendar year battling this virus and we are very prepared to take on these missions,\u201d said U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Adam Flasch, director of the MDNG Joint Staff. \u201cOur Soldiers and Airmen will help create some additional bandwidth for the front-line medical workers, who are out there doing a tremendous job supporting Marylanders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/18\/2022\/01\/7002040-1024x683.jpg\")
Members from the Maryland National Guard open a testing site at Upper Chesapeake Medical Center, Bel Air, Maryland, Dec. 31, 2021. The site was opened in response to Maryland State Governor Hogan\u2019s declaration that Maryland was in a state of emergency due to rising COVID-19 numbers. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman Alexandra Huettner)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maryland National Guard will be activated to assist state and local health officials with the state\u2019s Covid-19 response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":7106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-media-advisories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7126"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7140,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions\/7140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Maryland National Guard Public Affairs Office
ng.md.mdarng.list.pao@mail.mil<\/a>
Phone: 667-296-3662<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
BALTIMORE \u2014 At the direction of Governor Larry Hogan, up to 1,000 Soldiers and Airmen of the Maryland National Guard will be activated to assist state and local health officials with the state\u2019s COVID-19 response.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Guard members will support the Maryland Department of Health and other state agencies with missions for COVID-19 testing, supporting local hospitals and skilled nursing facilities, and assisting with non-life-threatening patient transport during the state of emergency due to a surge in COVID-19 hospitalizations. \u201cIf one characteristic has epitomized the Maryland National Guard\u2019s response to COVID-19, it has been adaptability,\u201d said U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Timothy E. Gowen, adjutant general for Maryland. \u201cTime and again, we have rapidly pivoted to meet the needs of the community as new challenges arose. This activation is no different.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Forty MDNG Soldiers already on duty supporting the Vaccine Equity Task Force were reassigned to support COVID-19 testing sites at the University of Maryland Upper Chesapeake Health in Bel Air and at Luminis Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis on Dec. 30, 2021. Additional members began mobilizing this week, and will soon begin training relating to their specific assignments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The MDNG will assist with opening 20 hospital-adjacent testing sites across the state to help divert people from visiting hospital emergency rooms and to meet the rising demand for COVID-19 testing. Support at each location will be tailored to meet the needs on-site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last year, Guard members supported the state\u2019s COVID-19 response at mass vaccinations sites throughout the state, at local health department sites with mobile vaccination support teams, and through the Vaccine Equity Task Force, which ensured the equitable distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine. Soldiers also supported testing sites across Maryland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is our third calendar year battling this virus and we are very prepared to take on these missions,\u201d said U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Adam Flasch, director of the MDNG Joint Staff. \u201cOur Soldiers and Airmen will help create some additional bandwidth for the front-line medical workers, who are out there doing a tremendous job supporting Marylanders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Maryland National Guard will be activated to assist state and local health officials with the state\u2019s Covid-19 response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":7106,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-media-advisories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7126"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7140,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7126\/revisions\/7140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The MDNG support will be tailored to the needs at each site and the mission details are in the process of being set with MDH and the local medical facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n