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Montgomery County leaders are developing a COVID-19 test-to-stay program for Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) with a goal to reduce quarantines, County Assistant Chief Administrative Officer Dr. Earl Stoddard explained during a virtual media briefing Wednesday. The program will look similar to the one in Massachusetts, Stoddard wrote on Twitter. The Massachusetts Department of Elementary […]

Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) has updated its COVID-19 quarantine guidelines. To summarize, in most situations, close contacts of symptomatic students will no longer be required to quarantine unless that student tests positive for COVID-19 or had a known exposure to someone with the virus, said Heather Dublinske, MCPS Coordinator for Student Welfare and Compliance. […]

Watch County Report This Week for coverage of the Stand Up for the Montgomery Way rally, an update on taser use by the Montgomery County Police Department, and more:

In this MyMCMedia Extra video, Zalgen Labs’ co-founder Dr. Luis Branco talks about his work on the rapid diagnostic test for Ebola late last year in Africa and what happened when he returned to the United States. The World Health Organization approved a rapid diagnostic test for Ebola last week. Related:

In this MyMCMedia Extra video, Dr. Luis Branco of Zalgen Labs said his Germantown company may need to hire more employees and expand its lab space if the demand for the rapid diagnostic Ebola test is great. The World Health Organization recently approved the Ebola test and FDA approval is pending, according to Dr. Branco. […]

In this MyMCMedia Extra video, Dr. Luis Branco of Zalgen Labs in Germantown says a rapid test for diagnosing Ebola has been approved by the World Health Organization and he expects the test will also receive FDA approval as early as this week. According to Branco, Zalgen Labs helped develop the test along with a […]

In this MyMCMedia Extra, newly reelected Councilmember Roger Berliner tells us that transit is the key to the county’s future. Take a look: Berliner took the Oath of Office on Dec. 1 at Richard Montgomery High School. His remarks followed the County Executive’s Inaugural Address which included news of a six point economic plan that […]