State Roundup: Vaccines coming as hospitalizations continue rising Sunset over the Bay from the Eastern Neck Wildlife Refuge NO HOLIDAY FOR VACCINE DISTRIBUTION: Vaccine distribution during the week between Christmas and New Years is not slowing down for the holidays, Bryan Renbaum reports for Maryland Reporter on Phase 1A of distribution. Enough vaccines are available to inoculate 100% of the state’s frontline hospital staff, and health departments are offering vaccines this week to the state’s first responders. The Carroll County Health Department announced the COVID-19 deaths of five more Carroll countians, and on the same day the health department also announced it will begin vaccinating some first responders and high-risk health care workers this week, Bob Blubaugh reports for the Carroll County Times.