6 ms·
HHS (The agency that administers Medicare/Medicaid in the US) has a 2-person SWAT Team on the rolls?
by joncrane 6y ago
HHS (The agency that administers Medicare/Medicaid in the US) has a 2-person SWAT Team on the rolls?
- tyingq 6y agoMaybe this? https://www.phe.gov/about/oem/prep/Pages/tactical.aspx https://www.phe.gov/about/oem/prep/Pages/tactical.aspx Like "guards" for the medical team?
- trothamel 6y agoThey also have a lab with samples of smallpox. I suspect having people who know the lab and are trained to work with SWAT teams is probably useful.
- thoughtstheseus 6y agoHaving people prepared to deal with a wide variety of situations is highly advisable.
- lumost 6y agoThe odds that the tactical team is in the same state as the smallpox lab are disappointingly low.
- dragonwriter 6y agoHHS is the parent of NIH, the CDC, and one of the US’s uniformed services, among other things, not just of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Their tactical team apparently belongs to NIH, which wouldn't have been my first guess.
- sien 6y agoLots of places that do animal testing has to watch PETA and beyond types. At my local university the Biology Department had more security than anywhere else on campus due to the threat of activists.
- tidepod12 6y agoIt covers this in the article: >NIH's SRT, formally established in 2005, had previously been a hazardous materials response unit, but evolved to be able to respond to active shooters and other serious incidents at the Institute's campus in Bethesda, Maryland. NIH works with radioactive materials for medical research and infectious diseases, among other hazards, all of which present potential security risks.