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Aug 18, 2021

Maryland To Require Hospital, Nursing Home Staff To Get Vaccinated Or Regular COVID-19 Testing

Employees at these facilities who don’t get vaccinated will be required to get tested for COVID-19 weekly.

Jul 24, 2021

Maryland Isn’t Mandating That Unvaccinated Students, Staff Wear Masks This Fall

Local school systems will be able to set their own policies for the return to in-person learning this fall.

Jul 03, 2011

Don’t Touch Me. Wait, Who’s Going to Get My Back?

Last month, worried that applying sunscreen would lead to inappropriate touching, Maryland health officials put in place a new policy at summer camps that steered counselors away from helping children apply sunscreen and forbid campers from assisting each other in the application of sunscreen. On Saturday, in response to dermatologists and parents who said the new policy would make it far more likely that children would suffer skin damage, the state health department scrapped the new restrictions.

 
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