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COVID-19

Emergency Mandates

Deputy Secretary for Public Health Services Nilesh Kalyanaraman said weekly respiratory virus-associated hospitalization rate increased ‘due in large part to increasing COVID and flu infections.’

The Baltimore-based institute is the only pediatric organization to receive the grant to expand care for patients with Long COVID symptoms.

Biden outpaces Trump in a rematch while Nikki Haley outpaces other GOP hopefuls.

The Senate co-chair of the Joint Audit and Evaluation Committee said recent changes tighten up the law may not be “airtight.”

Hospitals will begin to limit elective surgeries and increase the state’s staffed-bed capacity as Maryland surpasses 1,200 COVID-19-related hospitalizations, Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr. (R) announced Friday.

Lessons

Marylanders for Food and Farmworker Protection says the state needs to create a preparedness plan for future infectious disease emergencies. The existing template in use today is inadequate.

Essential Workers

Organizations representing Maryland health care workers say that in light of Gov. Lawrence J. Hogan Jr.’s plans to expand nursing personnel in health care…

The Department of Health reported Thursday morning that more than 10,000 Marylanders have died of COVID-19, and Maryland flags are flying at half-staff to…

Maryland was ranked fifth of 50 states and the federal government for its handling of COVID-19 in prisons from the pandemic’s start to mid-2021,…

After a year of living with COVID-19, it’s instructive to look at how state workers fared over the past year.