I want to be very clear: I do not believe we are failing our children in a virtual environment and I do not believe we will fail our children in a hybrid environment.
The hearing continued Tuesday with county officials defending the executive order.
The judge pressed Anne Arundel County Health Officer Dr. Nilesh Kalyanaraman for answers, demanding to know why the county is relying on hospital bed capacity projections rather than actual numbers.
The health officer told the court the county heavily relies on the number of COVID-19 hospitalization projections to determine what safety measures to put in place to help stop the spread. The numbers for December were off by 5,000 beds, leaving more than enough space to handle a spike in cases.
Mulford: This is not in the realm of reasonable probability. Why are you so wildly off with your projections? Why do you need to do more?