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Maryland Schools Superintendent Karen Salmon and Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Jack Smith said Tuesday they would like to see education employees be some of the first people to receive the coronavirus vaccine. The FDA approved Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine on Friday and Gov. Larry Hogan announced at a press briefing Tuesday that every Maryland hospital […]

Gov. Larry Hogan will provide an update on the state’s plan to distribute the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Hogan’s briefing comes a day after the first Pfizer vaccines were administered in the state Monday. Watch the briefing live below: Hogan’s address will be streamed live Tuesday at 4 p.m. on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Today at […]

Gov. Larry Hogan will provide an update on the state’s COVID-19 surge 3 p.m. on Thursday. Hogan’s briefing comes a day after leaders from Maryland’s nine largest jurisdictions met about imposing tighter coronavirus restrictions. Watch the press briefing here: Maryland and Montgomery County recorded their second highest surge of new coronavirus cases Thursday. Hospital bed […]

Los funcionarios estatales esperan tener acceso a una vacuna COVID-19 a partir de la próxima semana. “Si se aprueba, que anticipamos que así será, creemos que las dosis iniciales de la vacuna Pfizer estarán disponibles para Maryland a partir de la semana del 14 de diciembre, o la próxima semana”, dijo el subsecretario interino de […]

State officials expect to have access to a COVID-19 vaccine as early as next week. “If approved, which we anticipate it will be, we believe that the initial doses of the Pfizer vaccine will become available for Maryland as early as the week of Dec. 14, or next week,” said Acting Deputy Secretary for Public […]

Gov. Larry Hogan will provide an update on the state’s COVID-19 vaccination plan Tuesday at 3 p.m. Deputy Secretary Dr. Jinlene Chan and Assistant Secretary Bryan Mroz from the Maryland Department of Health will join Hogan in the briefing. Watch the briefing live here: Hogan’s address will be streamed live on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. […]

Former U.S. Rep. John Delaney (D-Md. 6) is getting attention on Twitter for his idea for distributing a coronavirus vaccine, once it is made available. Delaney tweeted Friday, “Pay everyone $1500 to get vaccine[.] It is a stimulus check & big vaccine incentive rolled into one[.] Result: more people get vaccine, it saves lives, helps […]

Novavax, a vaccine development company in Gaithersburg, Md., released details for a $1.6 billion government contract for a COVID-19 vaccine on Nov. 11, according to NPR. The contract is part of the Trump Administration’s “Operation Warp Speed,” a program to make a vaccine available to the public in record time. Over the past several months, […]

On Thursday, Gov. Larry Hogan toured Novavax, a Gaithersburg company that is developing a COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine candidate is currently in Phase 2 of clinical trials in the U.S., and is expected to begin Phase 3 in a few weeks. Novavax CEO Stanley Erck hopes to see results by early 2021, but said it’s […]