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Why the military can use emergency powers to treat service members with trial COVID-19 drugs

  • Written by Jennifer Bard, Visiting Professor of Law, University of Florida
Why the military can use emergency powers to treat service members with trial COVID-19 drugsMilitary medical personnel have helped support hospitals with heavy patient loads.John Moore/Getty Images

Infectiousdisease has always been one of the military’s greatest threats. By its own estimates, the U.S. Army lost almost as many soldiers from the 1918 flu as died on the battlefields of the first World War.

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