State Roundup: Primary care physicians join effort to get more Marylanders vaccinated Chesapeake Bay Bridge panorama by Peter Peretz with Flickr Creative Commons License PRIMARY DOCS TARGET HARD-TO-REACH MARYLANDERS: The state’s primary care physicians are poised to take a more active role in administering coronavirus vaccines following a Friday morning announcement by the Maryland Department of Health that it has expanded a critical program aimed at vaccinating the state’s most hard-to-reach residents, reports Bryan Renbaum of Maryland Reporter. Gov. Larry Hogan Friday announced that the state of Maryland has opened up direct scheduling for mass vaccination sites. The state’s pre-registration system is closed, and all 831,872 pre-registrants have now been offered appointments, David Higgins reports for the Southern Maryland Chronicle.