It is a staggering toll, almost 200,000 people dead from the coronavirus in the United States, and nearly five times that many — close to 1 million people — around the world.
The top U.S. public health agency has stirred confusion by posting — and then taking down — an apparent change in its position on how easily the coronavirus can spread.
The Government Accountability Office, Congress' auditing arm, said that possibly 8.7 million or more individuals eligible for the economic impact payments have yet to receive those payments because of inadequate IRS and Treasury Department records.
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Howard County Executive Calvin Ball on Monday announced another allocation of federal CARES Act funding, this time $1.3 million for a countywide initiative to support children and families with virtual learning.
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Former mayors Kurt Schmoke, Martin O’Malley, Sheila Dixon and Stephanie Rawlings-Blake joined the Greater Baltimore Committee for a virtual panel on what they learned during their tenures.
CORONAVIRUS HEALTH AND SCIENCE
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Many Marylanders who anxiously awaited the launch of BEACON 2.0, the makeover of the state’s unemployment insurance web portal that debuted Sunday, find it’s still not helping resolve their difficulties with claims.
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Baltimore County will follow Gov. Larry Hogan’s Friday order that allowed restaurants in the state to expand indoor dining capacity from 50% to 75%, Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski announced Monday.
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Here's a daily round up of the coronavirus news in the state of Maryland.
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Two weeks after the Labor Day holiday, Maryland has avoided a spike in coronavirus cases, and has seen positivity rates continue to set new low marks.
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COVID-19, the novel strain of the coronavirus that has sickened thousands across the globe, is spreading in Maryland.
LIFE AT HOME AMID CORONAVIRUS
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It is a staggering toll, almost 200,000 people dead from the coronavirus in the United States, and nearly five times that many — close to 1 million people — around the world.
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The Government Accountability Office, Congress' auditing arm, said that possibly 8.7 million or more individuals eligible for the economic impact payments have yet to receive those payments because of inadequate IRS and Treasury Department records.
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Two weeks after the Labor Day holiday, Maryland has avoided a spike in coronavirus cases, and has seen positivity rates continue to set new low marks.
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COVID-19, the novel strain of the coronavirus that has sickened thousands across the globe, is spreading in Maryland.
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These are the confirmed Maryland cases of the novel coronavirus, the illness that causes the COVID-19 disease, confirmed by the Maryland Department of Health. The charts and maps below show what has been reported by the state and update around 10 a.m. each day.
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MOMENTS OF HUMANITY
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Carroll County Government hopes to tap into a $10 million pot of emergency coronavirus relief funds being offered by the state to benefit law enforcement, youth and victim services.
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Several Maryland unemployment insurance claimants said they were not able to file claims Sunday after the Maryland Department of Labor launched an updated site.
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REV Cycle, a boutique gym that catered to Baltimore's indoor fitness enthusiasts, is closing its Locust Point location after six years due to the pandemic.
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Maryland health officials reported 412 new confirmed coronavirus cases and three new deaths Sunday.
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The Baltimore Museum of Art is preparing to reopen Sept. 16 with changes that ensure museum visitors and employees are safe from COVID-19.
BUSINESS AND ECONOMY
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REV Cycle, a boutique gym that catered to Baltimore's indoor fitness enthusiasts, is closing its Locust Point location after six years due to the pandemic.
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Maryland health officials reported 412 new confirmed coronavirus cases and three new deaths Sunday.
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The Baltimore Museum of Art is preparing to reopen Sept. 16 with changes that ensure museum visitors and employees are safe from COVID-19.
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I scan through my patient’s record, four months of life distilled into a series of progress notes, lab values and radiology, until I find what I am looking for — a chest X-ray from May. It is a striking image, the kind of X-ray that should not have been compatible with life.
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The man taking the last drag of his cigarette in the sweltering heat outside his convenience store in Volissos, a village on the Greek island of Chios, was clear: No mask, no shopping.
POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT
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COVID-19 is significantly altering the way costume creators do their jobs for the foreseeable future.
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Stephen Walsh made the best of being out of work during the pandemic and began running weekly trivia games. He runs more than 20 a week now, and they've been gaining international popularity.
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These artists mostly toil alone, sharing their work with one another in a Facebook group called Made in Isolation.
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The Carroll County Career and Technology Center wasn’t bustling with students, teachers and administrators. However, there’s school life in the building for the first time in six months amid the coronavirus pandemic, and everyone involved seemed happy to be back.
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“We’re highly discouraging anybody from having dancing on the dance floor, but if they feel like they can manage it, it’s the facility’s responsibility,” Carroll County Health Officer Ed Singer said.
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Anne Arundel County added 55 new coronavirus cases on Saturday and recorded one additional death, state and county figures show,
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Maryland reported 682 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, along with eight more deaths tied to the disease caused by the novel coronavirus.
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Maryland football will begin its new eight-game, regular-season schedule Oct. 24 at Northwestern.
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Shofer’s Furniture, a landmark in Federal Hill for more than a century and one of Baltimore’s oldest stores, will close by January.
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For the first time Friday, the Carroll County Health Department began announcing the number of COVID-19 tests that are considered probable but not confirmed.
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Dozens of Marylanders with megaphones and handmade signs descended upon the State House Friday, as the sun set on another day under coronavirus restrictions and mask mandates.
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Movie theaters, concert venues and outdoor performance centers in Anne Arundel County can reopen next week, county officials said Friday, but restaurants will not follow a new state order to ease limits on indoor dining.
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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan issued an order Friday allowing restaurants to offer expanded indoor dining starting Monday, but not all local governments in the Baltimore region intend to go along with it.
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About 200 students at the University of Maryland, College Park were told not to leave their dorm after they were exposed to COVID-19.
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The rate is down from an April peak of 10.1% following the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy, but is still more than double the unemployment rate from March, according to data from the Maryland Department of Labor.
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U.S. health officials on Friday dropped a controversial piece of coronavirus guidance and said anyone who has been in close contact with an infected person should get tested.
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Europe’s largest security organization said Friday that it has scaled back plans to send as many as 500 observers to the U.S. to monitor the Nov. 3 presidential election.
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Hundreds of thousands of coronavirus tests that Gov. Larry Hogan bought from South Korea in April to much fanfare appear to be showing reliability problems, returning a spate of false positive results to nursing homes around the state.
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The Howard County Public School System announced Thursday that it is gearing up to provide limited in-person instruction for the students who most need it.
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Friday’s new batch of data put the state at a total of 119,062 confirmed infections and 3,724 deaths since March. The state has reported single-digit death counts in 13 out of the last 14 days.
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An open letter to museum leaders has been signed by 45 of the Walters' 158 full and part-time employees, plus an additional 100 museum guests, artists and former staff members.
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Nurses caring for COVID-19 patients severely sick in the ICU at the University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center this spring were emotionally and physically drained.
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While some other colleges and universities have struggled with COVID-19 outbreaks, UMBC has kept its positivity rate low.
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Tucker Carlson hosted a Chinese virologist named Dr. Li-Meng Yan on his Fox News show. Yan, who has made regular appearances in conservative media outlets this year, claimed to have “solid scientific evidence” that the novel coronavirus is “not from nature,” that it was created in a lab under a Chinese military program, and that it was spread intentionally outside China as part of a biowarfare plot.
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Pregnant women who are infected with the coronavirus and hospitalized are at risk for developing serious complications and may face an elevated risk for delivering their babies prematurely, according to new studies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. They may also be at greater risk of losing the pregnancy or having a stillbirth.
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To keep Marylanders up to date with the week’s most pressing takeaways, here are five key points from The Baltimore Sun’s coronavirus coverage.
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A 62-year-old public bus driver in New York City, Anthony Reid was on his last run in East New York, Brooklyn, when passengers complained that a man in the back was not wearing a face covering. Reid pulled over and called out to the man, reminding him that masks were required on public transportation.
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In Maryland, there are several ways your ballot can get tossed without being tallied, and it isn’t just a freak occurrence. Nearly 35,000 ballots were not counted during the June primary.
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Only in 2020 could an Ohio State University student find out that since the start of the semester the class tips he’d been gleaning through a group messaging app were actually coming from nearly 800 miles away in Maryland.
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A heavily criticized recommendation last month about who should be tested for the coronavirus was not written by CDC scientists and was posted to the agency’s website despite their serious objections.
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As the beginning of the 2020 school year approaches, Maryland counties are announcing plans and guidelines for holding classes while containing the spread of coronavirus.
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As the fall semester approaches, Maryland’s colleges and universities are announcing plans and guidelines for how they plan to hold classes while containing the spread of coronavirus. Here’s a sampling of what some of the schools in the area are doing.
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A new ad for Crown Royal whisky that highlights the local music economy featured two beloved Baltimore music venues and bars, the Ottobar and Cat's Eye Pub, as well as several members of the city’s musical community.
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All five cases announced Thursday were among community members living outside of what the health department defines as congregate living facilities, including nursing homes. That brings to 36 the number of community cases for the week beginning Sunday after 74 last week and 88 the week before that. Singer has recommended to CCPS that community cases should be around 35 per week for a few weeks before in-person school resumes.
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The gulf between President Trump and public health officials over wearing face masks keeps widening.
