People with chronic health care conditions like asthma, diabetes, hypertension and compromised immune systems are being told that they are among the most vulnerable populations that could become seriously ill from COVID-19 and should stay inside as much as possible. ...
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Maryland hospitalizations for COVID-19 have sharply increased over the last week, underscoring hospitals’ needs for equipment and supplies and to protect their health care workers. Since the state first began reporting the number of people who have ever been hospitalized ...
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Thousands of Marylanders are signing up for health insurance amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and the state’s health exchange Wednesday extended the window to allow more people to enroll. The state’s special enrollment period for the coronavirus will now run through ...
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Maryland will open three drive-up COVID-19 testing sites at vehicle emissions testing stations Wednesday, adding to an existing site at FedEx Field, but it remains unclear what the state’s testing capacity is and whether it would expand anytime in the ...
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Sales and profit at McCormick & Co. fell during the firm’s first quarter as China dealt with COVID-19, but while restaurants are shuttering and scaling back services in other regions the Hunt Valley spice maker’s consumer sales are surging as ...
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Bloomberg Philanthropies and the state of Maryland will spend $4 million to back a Johns Hopkins University study into whether the blood of recovered COVID-19 patients can be used to treat patients suffering from the disease. The effort will also ...
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Traditionally competitive life sciences companies in Maryland have begun to collaborate as they develop tests, therapies and vaccines for COVID-19.
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Maryland hospitals stand to benefit from Congress’s massive $2 trillion stimulus bill, but questions about what they would get and when remain unanswered. The state’s hospitals have not yet entered a “crisis situation” over beds for COVID-19 so far, state ...
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There is a burgeoning response by Maryland and national manufacturers to the coronavirus pandemic, which is requiring more resources, such as masks, gloves and gowns for health care providers and even the wire racks that hold test tubes.
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Maryland and its hospitals have begun adding beds and choosing sites for temporary hospitals as COVID-19 hospitalizations are expected to rise over the coming weeks. Mercy Medical Center and LifeBridge Health announced plans last week to bring hundreds of new ...
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