Governor Hogan spoke with The Atlantic Ideas Festival to discuss Maryland’s leadership on the development of widespread rapid testing and vaccines.  

As Governor Hogan discussed in the interview, “widespread vaccines and rapid testing” are the key to getting “the economy back on track, kids back in schools, and have people feel a real sense of normalcy.” 

Thanks to Governor Hogan’s historic bipartisan interstate compact, Maryland has already acquired 250,000 of these rapid tests, which will be deployed to nursing homes, assisted-living facilities, and correctional and juvenile detention centers across the state. As flu season approaches, Maryland has begun to utilize tests in its state lab that can simultaneously detect the flu and COVID-19. 

Maryland is also leading on the development of a vaccine. Yesterday, Governor Hogan toured the headquarters of Novavax, Inc.— one of nearly 40 Maryland companies that are working on developing and manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine. The same day as Governor Hogan’s visit, Novavax announced that they have begun a final-stage trial for a vaccine. 

This progress on vaccine development and rapid testing comes as Maryland is reporting record low COVID-19 metrics.

Watch Governor Hogan’s Atlantic Ideas Festival Interview Here

Governor Hogan joined the Reagan Foundation, American University, and United for Infrastructure to discuss how to make bipartisan progress on issues like infrastructure and education. 

As the former Chair for Youth for Reagan, Governor Hogan reflected on how President Reagan not only put forward “a positive vision for America,” but also “was willing to work across the aisle” with Democrats like Speaker Tip O’Neill “to come up with solutions.” 

Watch Governor Hogan Appear At The Reagan Foundation’s RISE Event Here