Coronavirus

Over the long Memorial Day weekend, Carroll County saw four more deaths from COVID-19 and 51 new cases of the disease, according to the county health department.

Starting at 9 a.m. Wednesday, businesses can apply with the city to get a temporary Retail Pick Up/Drop Off zone designation. These zones will be awarded on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Here's a daily round up of the coronavirus news in the state of Maryland.

Carroll County’s commissioners unanimously adopted the fiscal year 2021 budget Tuesday with the intent of revisiting it in a few months, when they hope more is known about the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

While Gov. Larry Hogan earlier in the month gave local officials the authority to begin reopening their jurisdictions, Baltimore remains under a stay-at-home order.

By Daniel Oyefusi

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Carroll County’s commissioners unanimously adopted the fiscal year 2021 budget Tuesday with the intent of revisiting it in a few months, when they hope more is known about the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic.

56 additional Great Clips clients were potentially exposed by a second COVID-19-positive stylist, health officials say.

While Gov. Larry Hogan earlier in the month gave local officials the authority to begin reopening their jurisdictions, Baltimore remains under a stay-at-home order.

By Daniel Oyefusi

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Not all counties are planning to reopen to the full extent allowed under phase one of Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan’s recovery plan. Here’s what is allowed in each jurisdiction in the Baltimore area.

Anne Arundel County renters could receive protection from substantial rent increases during the a global coronavirus pandemic if an emergency bill from three of the body’s four Democrats is successful.

By Olivia Sanchez

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Place is overrated, or at least the place of the workplace is overrated.

Congress is at a crossroads in the coronavirus crisis, wrestling over whether to “go big" or hit “pause,” as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell insists.

Mary J. Wilson, the first African American senior zookeeper at what is now at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore, died Thursday at Northwest Hospital in Randallstown of the coronavirus. The former Ashburton resident was 83.

By Frederick N. Rasmussen

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Martha Gomez says she and the friends she grew up with in Rockford, Illinois, still joke around about a certain fast-food restaurant manager they worked for while in high school.

Between technical glitches and food worries, retail therapy and sheer amnesia, something has happened to shopping during the pandemic that can be summed up thusly: rubber chickens.

A group of Baltimore advocates and city council members is calling on Comcast to expand internet access available to the city’s low-income residents, saying during a news conference Tuesday that the internet has become a public utility for children trying to learn during the coronavirus pandemic.

By Phil Davis

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A second straight weekend of large crowds in downtown Annapolis has frustrated city officials who have sought to limit such gatherings and promote physical distancing in an effort to avoid a second wave of coronavirus infections.

By Brooks DuBose

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The NYSE says fewer traders will be on the floor at a given time in order to support 6-foot social distancing requirements. They also must wear masks.

Maryland’s lengthy streak of declining current hospitalizations from the coronavirus came to an end Tuesday, the state’s overall trend is generally declining.

By Nathan Ruiz

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County Executive Calvin Ball announced Tuesday morning that Howard County will enter the first phase of reopening amid the coronavirus pandemic at 7 a.m. Friday.

In place of a physical ceremony, seniors in caps and gowns can drive to their high school with four family members to receive their diploma and have their photo taken on a stage, Superintendent George Arlotto announced Tuesday.

By Lilly Price

1:30 PM

Harford County Department of Parks and Recreation hosted its first game of “virtual catch,” splicing together video clips of residents and county officials playing catch.

The Trump administration’s new testing strategy holds individual states responsible for planning and carrying out all coronavirus testing and says existing testing capacity is sufficient to contain the outbreak. But epidemiologists say that amount of testing is orders of magnitude lower than many of them believe the country needs.

We are awash in statistics about COVID-19: number of deaths, fatality rates, contagion rates, But what does this all mean in terms of personal risk?

Is it OK to resume athletic training, even if you have gotten through a bout of COVID-19 or tested positive for coronavirus or suspect you might have been infected?

Along with nursing homes and prisons, meatpacking facilities have proved to be places where the virus spreads rapidly. But as dozens of plants that closed because of outbreaks begin reopening, meat companies’ reluctance to disclose detailed case counts makes it difficult to tell whether the contagion is contained or new cases are emerging even with new safety measures in place.

Hospital kitchens everywhere are congregations of predawn travelers gathering to provide patients with nutritious meals.

While most people focus, as they should, on social distancing, face coverings, hand washing and even self isolation to protect against the deadly coronavirus now ravaging the country, too few are paying serious attention to two other factors critically important to the risk of developing a COVID-19 infection and its potential severity.

The Conference Board said Tuesday that its confidence index ticked up to a reading of 86.6 in May from 85.7 in April. The index, which reflects consumers’ assessments of present conditions and expectations about the future, had plummeted during the previous two months.

The absence of people outdoors has produced a rare positive payoff in most American cities, big and small.

When everyone leaves the house for work and school, your dog will spend much of the day alone. This could cause stress for your furry friend, who has grown used to having people home all day.

At least half a dozen chief executives have contracted it in the past three months, according to a tally by The New York Times.

Looking back, ruefully, on being brought down by a virus after a life as a virus hunter, Dr. Peter Piot, the director of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said he had misjudged his prey and had become the hunted.

Latam Airlines, South America’s biggest carrier, sought U.S. bankruptcy protection Tuesday as it grapples with the coronavirus pandemic. The Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing underscores the severity of the financial challenges facing the travel industry.

Maryland school officials have now outlined a range of possibilities that all involve significant restructuring of the school day and week with a combination of distance learning and in-person instruction.

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 table and map below shows what has been reported by the state and updates at 10 a.m. each day.

Meatpacking companies struggling to hire before the pandemic are spending millions on fresh incentives. Their hiring capability hinges on unemployment, industry changes, employees' feelings about safety, and President Donald Trump’s aggressive and erratic immigration policies.

COVID-19, the novel strain of the coronavirus that has sickened thousands across the globe, is spreading in Maryland.

In an extraordinary hourlong session with reporters, the aide, Dominic Cummings, admitted to traveling from London to his parents’ home in Durham in late March while showing symptoms of the coronavirus, and making a second outing in the region while there, confirming reports that have consumed the British news media for three days.

Missouri’s health director issued a dire warning Monday after photos and video showed Memorial Day weekend revelers partying close together.

A clear majority of Marylanders support the state’s restrictions on businesses and gatherings meant to slow the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, according to a new poll.

By Luke Broadwater

12:01 AM

The British government is facing a tide of anger over the revelation that Dominic Cummings traveled more than 400 kilometers from London to his parents’ home.

Several photos this Memorial Day weekend circulated on social media showed large groups of people in Ocean City not wearing face mask or practicing social distancing.

By John-John Williams IV

May 25, 2020

In a world seeded with anxiety, fear is gripping not just people who are ill with the coronavirus but also those in urgent need of other medical care.

Not so many months ago, casting a ballot by mail was a topic reserved for conferences of election administrators. That was before the mail ballot became seen as an essential element for voting in a pandemic, and before President Donald Trump weaponized mail voting.

President Donald Trump gave a Memorial Day address at Fort McHenry in Baltimore on Monday honoring recent and past fallen military members and likening their contributions to service members currently on the front lines battling the coronavirus.

With Brazil emerging as one of the world's most infected countries, President Jair Bolsonaro is deflecting all responsibility for the coronavirus crisis.

In the less than two months since then, the warehouse in the foothills of the Pocono Mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania has become Amazon’s biggest COVID-19 hot spot.

Pandemic or no pandemic, Michael Brophy was determined to hold a Memorial Day service to honor the men and women who have given their lives for their country in the past — and who continue to do so today.

By Mary Carole McCauley

May 25, 2020

Trump threatened Monday to pull the RNC out of N.C. if the state’s Democratic governor doesn’t sign off on allowing a full-capacity gathering.

Students who had locked down internships as early as September are now jobless.

The pandemic is an ideal time to lay bare people’s psychological struggles around money, she said, because the financial fallout from closing the U.S. economy for months is far from certain. Add to that the guesswork around how lockdown orders may have changed consumer spending habits.

As several states begin to reopen, their museums are carefully doing the same, with new policies and protocols in place: the San Antonio Museum of Art on May 28; the Boca Raton Museum of Art on June 3; the Wichita Art Museum on June 23; the Cleveland Museum of Art around June 30.

At the end of Italy’s coronavirus lockdown, one of the camels broke free.

Stick with the here and now. Tomorrow is hazy. And I suspect you know that. Otherwise, after 60 days in lockdown, at least one of your “great conversations” would have touched on: “So, where is this relationship heading?”