Game-Changing One-Dose Vaccine Produced In Maryland Could Be Available Shortly - Across Maryland, MD - States struggling to provide enough COVID-19 vaccines are likely just a few days away from a pivotal development in the vaccination race.
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A bill essentially legalizing recreational use of cannabis in Maryland would be an important step toward addressing social equity and racial injustices, advocates said.
“This is the year we are talking about equity,” Del. Jazz Lewis, D-Prince George’s, sponsor of the bill, said at a Wednesday House Judiciary Committee hearing Capital News Service viewed. “And now is the time that we pass this bill.”
HB32 would legalize, tax, and regulate marijuana, referred to as cannabis in the bill, for adults 21 and older and also allow for expungement and release for individuals previously arrested or incarcerated.
Lewis argued at the hearing that the bill would take the production of cannabis off of the streets to ensure safer products, while simultaneously creating jobs, helping small businesses, and bringing in potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in annual tax revenue.
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WASHINGTON States struggling to provide enough COVID-19 vaccines are likely just a few days away from a pivotal development in the vaccination race: the availability of a shot that requires only one dose.
The game-changing Johnson & Johnson vaccine would differ from the two current shots by Pfizer and Moderna in several critical ways. By requiring just one dose, individuals won’t need to return several weeks later for an additional shot.
That will be significant help in rural areas, and other places where residents are far from vaccination sites.
It also has easier storage requirements than the current shots, which need extra-cold temperatures, and it can be kept in a standard refrigerator for at least three months
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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and Del. Lamont Bagby, D-Henrico, talk with nurses at a mass vaccination event last month in Henrico County.Washington Post photo by Gregory S. Schneider
Maryland expects to receive shipments of the yet-to-be cleared Johnson & Johnson vaccine as soon as next week, Gov. Larry Hogan, a Republican, said Tuesday.
Hogan said the federal government notified states that allocations of the single-dose shot, which is being manufactured in Baltimore, could be delivered soon, a development that could help a vaccination effort beset by crushing demand and limited doses in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia.