An investigation is ongoing and officials say there is no evidence of data being compromised.

The deaths were not properly classified by medical certifiers over the past year, state officials said.

The senate voted 45 to 2 for Dennis Schrader, who had been serving as acting secretary since December.

The state has administered only about one-third of the more than 274,000 vaccines it’s received so far. Gov. Larry Hogan announced a series of measures to help speed up the process.