Many county health departments say their allocation of coronavirus vaccine doses has gone down in recent weeks. Add in shipment delays and officials say that s making it difficult to efficiently vaccinate those in line around the state.|| Coronavirus updates | Maryland s latest numbers | Get tested | Vaccine Info ||It is clearly an issue a lot of Marylanders are concerned about. Hundreds of thousands are on waiting lists around the state. And just Monday night, Howard County held a virtual town hall on vaccine distribution, where 17,000 attended.Maryland online vaccination site locatorVaccine Data DashboardMaryland vaccination plan FAQs“This cut in vaccine to our local health department is devastating, not only to our ability to deliver the vaccine, but frankly, to the morale of our residents,” Howard County Executive Calvin Ball said.Howard County officials are frustrated their weekly allotment of coronavirus vaccine doses has been cut, again, despite using all of their sup
Horse tranquilizer is hitting the US as a dangerous street drug By: CNN
By Maria Morava and AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) A new and dangerous street drug is emerging in the US.
It s called xylazine, though it s better known by its street name, tranq . It s a non-opioid sedative used in veterinary medicine, typically with horses.
And in Philadelphia, where drug overdoses have spiked to historic highs, it was present in nearly one-third of all fatal opioid overdose cases in 2019.
Xylazine is not for humans
Different from ketamine, an animal tranquilizer also used effectively in human medicine, xylazine has not been approved by the FDA for human use.
Dangerous drug used to sedate horses killing thousands in the US
A new and dangerous street drug is emerging in the US.
It s called xylazine, though it s better known by its street name, tranq . It s a non-opioid sedative used in veterinary medicine, typically with horses.
And in Philadelphia, where drug overdoses have spiked to historic highs, it was present in nearly one-third of all fatal opioid overdose cases in 2019.
A new study in the journal Injury Prevention, published Wednesday, suggests the opioid epidemic in the US continues to evolve.
This undated photo provided by the Philadelphia Department of Public Health shows discarded boxes of xylazine seized in a raid.(Philadelphia Department of Public Health)
On Monday, Gov. Larry Hogan visited some of 500 Maryland National Guard troops deployed to Washington for the Inauguration. He was briefed by Army Brig. Gen. Janeen Birckhead, assistant adjutant general of the Maryland Guard. Birckhead is commander of the Task Force Capitol Grounds, in charge of more than 3,500 troops in D.C. Governor s Office photo
SPEAKER JONES: ‘BLACK AGENDA’ WOULD ATTACK SYSTEMIC RACISM: House Speaker Adrienne Jones (D-Baltimore County) says it’s time to dismantle the racist policies that by design have created a country where the net worth of a typical White family is 10 times higher than that of a Black family. And she plans to unveil what she is calling a “Black agenda,” one designed to attack systemic racial inequalities in housing, health, banking, government and private corporations, Ovetta Wiggins of the Post reports.
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Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine can protect against a mutation found in two highly contagious variants of the coronavirus that erupted in Britain and South Africa, new research show.
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President-elect Joe Biden will release most available COVID-19 vaccine doses to increase the pace of inoculations, a reversal of the Trump administration policy, his office said Friday.