COVID-19 In Maryland: Over 1,000 New Cases Reported For Third Time In August
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Officials advise residents to speak with their primary health care provider to see if they are eligible for receiving a third dose.
Schools are just about to reopen, and mandates surrounding masks and vaccines are causing controversy.
State's top health officials are urging all employers to require covid vaccines.
After struggling for months to persuade Americans to get the COVID-19 vaccine, U.S. health officials could soon face a fresh challenge: talking vaccinated people into getting booster shots to gain longer-lasting protection as the delta variant sends infections soaring again.
The calls and emails about Covid-19 boosters have already started coming into Dr. William Schaffner's medical center in Nashville, Tennessee.
More than 121,000 child Covid-19 cases were reported in the US in the last week, according to a report from the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Baltimore County Schools announced Tuesday that they will require employees to show proof of covid-19 vaccination or to submit to weekly testing.
The Archdiocese of Baltimore is not setting a universal policy about wearing masks in its Catholic schools for this school year, leaving it up to parents and the jurisdictions where the schools are based if transmission rates are low to moderate.
The University of Maryland announced new COVID-19 guidelines for the upcoming fall season.
Parents in Harford County are currently participating in a "no more masks in schools" protest in Harford County outside of a school board meeting.
Pfizer and BioNTech said Monday they have submitted initial data to the US Food and Drug Administration to support the use of a booster dose of Covid-19 vaccine.
The US could soon see more than 200,000 new cases of Covid-19 every day as the Delta variant spreads at a rapid pace, particularly among unvaccinated people, the director of the National Institutes of Health predicted.
Gov. Larry Hogan allowed Maryland's coronavirus state of emergency to expire Sunday despite pleas from some Democrats who wrote to him that it is still needed.
As Gov. Larry Hogan's executive order prohibiting residential evictions is set to expire Sunday with the rest of the COVID-19 state of emergency, families who are struggling to pay rent are left worrying about the future.
Maryland reported 869 new COVID-19 cases and four new deaths, according to state health department data released Sunday morning.
Gov. Larry Hogan appears ready to let Maryland's state of emergency from COVID-19 fully expire Sunday as planned, despite urging from some legislators to extend it further due to case increases from a highly contagious variant.
Maryland reported 1,016 new COVID-19 cases and nine new deaths, according to state health department data released Saturday morning.
Joy Curbean-Johnson initially did not trust the COVID-19 vaccines. She worried about side effects after a friend had an adverse reaction.
Maryland officials are endorsing federal officials' approval of a COVID-19 vaccine booster shot for some immunocompromised residents.
Maryland reported 950 new COVID-19 cases and five new deaths, according to state health department data released Friday morning.
As experts race to mitigate the spread of Covid-19 by encouraging vaccinations and mask wearing, hospital systems in a handful of states are now straining to keep up with the surge.
As school systems reevaluate their face covering policies, Howard County will become the first school system in the state to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for its employees.
Howard County's public school system became Maryland's first to require either vaccines or mandatory testing for all employees.
