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The Maryland Department of Health on Friday launched a new website to offer information on vaccines as doses become available.
The page is part of Maryland s online CovidLink hub.
“Our CovidLink site is among the most dynamic, robust and trustworthy COVID-19 information sources for Marylanders,” MDH Acting Secretary Dennis R. Schrader said in a statement. “This is a rapidly changing situation, so we want to ensure that everyone looks to CovidLink for the most up-to-date information about COVID-19 vaccinations, as more information becomes available.”
The website includes information about Maryland vaccine priority groups, vaccine status and dosing information. It has information about vaccine development, clinical studies and emergency use authorization approval. As Maryland progresses in its COVID-19 vaccination plan, health officials will update the p
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ANNAPOLIS â While Marylanders face several months of difficult struggles due to COVID-19, the state has reached a turning point that marks the beginning of the end of the deadly pandemic, Gov. Larry Hogan said Tuesday.
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine.
Some health care workers in various regions of the state, not including Allegany and Garrett counties, on Monday received a vaccine for the disease.
An FDA advisory committee on Thursday is scheduled to review analysis of the vaccines and make a recommendation to the FDA.
CUMBERLAND â Although Allegany and Garrett counties have the highest COVID-19 case rates across Maryland, local hospitals didnât make the stateâs cut for facilities that will get the first available vaccine for the disease.
Whenever local hospitals do get a shipment, the vaccine wonât be mandatory for their workers.
Vaccine distribution
According to The Washington Post, the FDA early Friday said it âwill rapidly work towardâ authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on an emergency basis, and that decision was expected by Saturday.
The Maryland Hospital Association reported that 50,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine are set to be distributed to the state next week.
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