A Gaithersburg medicine company's subsidiary has begun a collaboration with a Swedish medical university to identify bacterial co-infections in patients admitted to the ICU for COVID-19 pneumonia.

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Companies with thousands of employees, past penalties from government investigations and risks of financial failure even before the coronavirus walloped the economy were among those receiving millions of dollars from a relief fund that Congress created to help small businesses through the crisis, an Associated Press investigation found.

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Congress reached a tentative agreement Tuesday with President Donald Trump on a nearly $500 billion coronavirus relief bill that would replenish a small business rescue program, provide hospitals with another $75 billion, and implement a nationwide virus testing program to facilitate reopening the economy.

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Maryland’s public universities have been forced to adapt to one sudden change by shifting their learning online, but they face another looming challenge from the COVID-19 pandemic as the state expects to enact significant budget deficits. Over the past decade, ...

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An expected May special session of the Maryland General Assembly has been postponed.

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Two Bethesda real estate companies have moved their annual shareholders’ meetings to a virtual format in response to the danger posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. JBG Smith Properties changed its April 30 meeting to a virtual-only meeting. Shareholders of record as ...

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The Trump administration and Congress are trudging toward an agreement on an aid package of more than $450 billion to boost a small-business loan program that has run out of money and add funds for hospitals and COVID-19 testing.

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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says increasing numbers of coronavirus cases in the mid-Atlantic region warn against an early re-opening of businesses, even as new data from the state show a slight drop in new cases.

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The battle to prevent the spread of COVID-19 has put a lot of small businesses out of work, but Maryland’s cannabis dispensaries are rolling up sales. Dispensaries saw a significant increase in cannabis sales after Gov. Larry Hogan declared a ...

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Global stock markets rose on Friday as more governments planned for a phased reopening of parts of their economies, while the U.S. benchmark for oil continued to slide, falling below $19 a barrel.

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