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With even more contagious strains of COVID-19 running rampant, a depleted workforce is all that’s left to care for Maryland’s sick.

Experts say the resistance some in Harford County have shown to mask mandates, vaccinations and other COVID mitigation measures, along with its medical facilities having small capacities to begin with, have contributed to its hospitals reaching critical levels before those in other parts of the state.

Developers of a proposed five-warehouse project on Perryman Peninsula faced sometimes hostile questioning from residents during a recent community input meeting.

Students could go without masks if 80 percent of staff and students are vaccinated or COVID-19 transmission rates are at low or moderate rates.

Maryland’s state school board approved an emergency regulation Tuesday that allows students to go without masks if the community spread of COVID-19 in their county is moderate or if vaccination rates are above 80% in the school or the surrounding community.

Board members voted 12-2 Wednesday to call for a new masking plan for the state’s 24 public school systems after hearing from from Maryland’s Superintendent of Schools Mohammed Choudhury.

Board members voted 12-2 Wednesday to call for a new masking plan for the state’s 24 public school systems after hearing from from Maryland’s Superintendent of Schools Mohammed Choudhury.

In Baltimore City, 90% of the school system's 10,000 employees are vaccinated or have an exemption.

Aberdeen will host a number of state and federal officials at its Amtrak/MARC train station next week in a bid to make improvements to the city’s aging station — in line with President Joe Biden’s goal of investing in infrastructure, the city announced in a statement.

Normally at Aberdeen Proving Ground’s C5ISR center, finding a parking spot can be a challenge. But Thursday, spaces were plentiful, even as the base opens further to employees and even visitors. Part of that is the U.S. Army installation is finding a balance of working in-person and virtually as the coronavirus pandemic tapers off.