The White House is recommending that all nursing home residents and staff be tested for the new coronavirus in the next two weeks, a step that had been announced in Maryland by Gov. Larry Hogan in late April. But if ...

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Widespread testing and contact tracing may be the best way to contain COVID-19 and keep it from a resurgence as jurisdictions look to loosen physical distancing, modelers told a Maryland legislative work group Wednesday. Because the coronavirus can spread before ...

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Maryland opened its field hospital at the Baltimore Convention Center on Sunday as COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to grow in the state. Cases of the disease caused by the novel coronavirus grew to nearly 19,500 on Monday. The number ...

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If testing is to be a foundational block of Maryland’s plan to begin reopening the state, as Gov. Larry Hogan has said it will be, then the tests themselves are just part of a complex supply chain management problem that ...

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The coronavirus outbreak has thrown at least 16.8 million Americans onto the unemployment rolls in just three weeks, underscoring the terrifying speed with which the crisis has brought world economies to a near standstill.

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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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