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Gaithersburg-based Novavax Inc. announced its COVID-19 vaccine was granted Emergency Use Listing by the World Health Organization. (File photo)
Nov 28, 2023

Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine now available for all 194 WHO members

Gaithersburg-based Novavax Inc. announced its COVID-19 vaccine was granted Emergency Use Listing by the World Health Organization.

Associated Press reporter Richard Lardner kayaks to Sweetheart Island, off the coast of Yankeetown, Florida, on Aug. 5, 2023. Patrick Parker Walsh is serving five and half years in federal prison for stealing nearly $8 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds that he used, in part, to buy the island. (AP Photo/Julio Aguilar)
Nov 10, 2023

The Great Grift: COVID-19 aid thieves bought fancy cars, a Pokemon card — even a private island

Thousands of thieves perpetrated the greatest grift in U.S. history — potentially plundering more than $280 billion in federal COVID-19 aid.

Gaithersburg-based Novavax Inc. announced its COVID-19 vaccine was granted Emergency Use Listing by the World Health Organization. (File photo)
Nov 2, 2023

Novavax’s updated COVID-19 vaccine receives positive opinion in EU 

Gaithersburg-based Novavax Inc. announced its Nuvaxovid XBB.1.5 vaccine was recommended for approval in the European Union.

Maryland Court of Appeals
Oct 24, 2023

Md. attorney who closed law practice without telling client is indefinitely suspended

A lawyer who shuttered his practice during the COVID-19 pandemic without informing his client has been indefinitely suspended.

Oct 23, 2023

Kennedy Krieger receives $5M grant to expand pediatric long COVID-19 clinic

Kennedy Krieger Institute has received a $5 million grant to expand access to comprehensive care for children and adolescents with long COVID-19.

Oct 13, 2023

Submitting chiropractor’s note for mask exemption not gross misconduct, Md. court finds

An employee’s note from a chiropractor for exemption to her company’s mask mandate did not constitute gross misconduct, a Maryland court found. 

A nurse administers a Moderna COVID-19 booster vaccine at an inoculation station next to Jackson State University in Jackson, Mississippi, on Nov. 18, 2022. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
Oct 10, 2023

Baltimore law firm sued over COVID vaccine mandate policy

A former legal secretary is suing Tydings & Rosenberg LLP over the law firm's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for employees.

COVID-19 antigen home tests indicating a positive result are photographed in New York on April 5, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)
Oct 5, 2023

COVID-19 numbers in Maryland surge amid decline in preventive measures

Maryland is seeing a surge in COVID cases that mirrors national trends — and experts say it might continue as the state heads into respiratory disease season.

Gaithersburg-based Novavax Inc. announced its COVID-19 vaccine was granted Emergency Use Listing by the World Health Organization. (File photo)
Oct 3, 2023

US adds updated Novavax shots as fall COVID vaccine option

U.S. regulators authorized another option for fall COVID-19 vaccination, updated shots made by Gaithersburg-based Novavax.

Sep 15, 2023

Marilyn Mosby will testify at perjury trial about COVID-19 financial hardship, court filings show

Ex-Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby will take the stand at her upcoming federal perjury trial, according to a new court filing submitted Friday.

Dr. Mandy Cohen, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, receives a flu vaccine from Nurse Practitioner Whitney Goggans at the Atlanta Press Club, where Cohen spoke about health issues, on Sept. 6, 2023, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart, File)
Sep 11, 2023

Updated COVID shots are coming, part of a trio of vaccines to block fall viruses

Updated COVID-19 vaccines are coming soon, just in time to pair them with flu shots.

Aug 29, 2023

Federal investigators in Md. unearth $40M in COVID fraud schemes

As part of a national crackdown on COVID-19 relief program fraud, the U.S. Attorney's Office in Maryland has filed criminal charges against 20 defendants.

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