On March 5, 2020, Maryland’s first three positive cases of COVID-19 were confirmed.
On March 30, 2020, Gov. Larry Hogan issued a stay-at-home order, keeping residents from work or school, and setting in motion a new normal for the state of pandemic-related anxiety to which the world is still accustomed. On Dec. 11, the Food and Drug Administration approved administration of the first coronavirus vaccine in the U.S., developed by Pfizer-BioNTech.
This month, on April 6, over a year from when the pandemic began, Hogan announced that all Marylanders over the age of 16 were now eligible to receive a vaccine.
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BALTIMORE (AP) — Jurors are returning to Maryland's courtrooms. And judges are starting to address the backlog of felony cases that have piled up during the coronavirus pandemic. The Baltimore Sun reported Tuesday that jurors are coming back this week for the first time in five months. The state's courts have opened and closed intermittently since the virus broke out more than a year ago. Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera […]
