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State surpasses 250,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19

As of Sunday, over 250,000 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Maryland. In a statement, Gov. Larry Hogan wrote that key metrics were stable and that more vaccines will come to Maryland and to frontline workers in the coming week. “With Christmas approaching, we cannot afford to let our guard down,” he wrote. “We remind Marylanders that you truly are safer at home for the holidays.” On Sunday, the state added 2,054 confirmed cases and 37 deaths, bringing the death toll to 5,279. The positivity rate remains under 8 percent at 7.68 percent, down .15 percent from Saturday. In Frederick County, the positivity rate is 8.9 percent and almost 100 additional cases were confirmed between Saturday and Sunday. The total number of confirmed cases in the county is now 9,613 and the death toll is 162.

We are not OK: Two Frederick nurses speak on working through the pandemic

The process is both frustrating and exhausting. Did she put on her personal protective equipment the right way? Did she touch her face at any point? Did she wash her hands frequently and thoroughly enough? In Miller’s world as an intensive care nurse at Frederick Health Hospital during the coronavirus pandemic, the answers to these ever-present questions could mean the difference between good health and critical — potentially even fatal — illness. “Now I have a 6-year-old and a 10-year-old at home. They want to hug mommy after she takes a shower. Am I going to give them the virus?” she wonders.

The first shot: Frederick Health Hospital begins administering COVID-19 vaccine

Wielding in her right hand the best weapon yet to fight the novel coronavirus, Lisa Marchesani felt nervous. Marchesani, the employee health nurse at Frederick Health Hospital, has been administering shots for 32 years, but never one with this type of fanfare. “I don’t have cameras watching me while I am giving shots all of the time,” she said. “I know how to do my job. I just don’t like it when people are [hovering]. I am more of a behind-the-scenes kind of gal.” But, just after 2 p.m. Thursday, Marchesani was front and center as she delivered Frederick County’s first shot of the COVID-19 vaccine from pharmaceutical giant Pfizer into the upper right arm of a fellow hospital employee.

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