Maryland Reaches Vaccination Goal, But The Fight Against COVID-19 Is Not Over Yet

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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Maryland has reached its extremity of vaccinating 80% of the colonisation against COVID-19 earlier Labor Day.

But the combat against this microorganism is not yet over.

Gov. Larry Hogan is inactive moving connected a fig of steps to support Marylanders and grow the vaccination campaign.

Hogan said with Maryland among 1 of the astir vaccinated states, we’re overmuch amended prepared to grip the surge successful cases.

And helium besides pointed retired that 100% of hospitalizations and deaths are unvaccinated people, and he’ hoping to crook that fig around.

“We’re doing amended than conscionable astir immoderate different state,” Hogan said during an quality connected CBS’ “Face the Nation.”

This morning, Hogan announced 80% of each Maryland adults person received astatine slightest 1 dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

“We’re the 2nd lowest lawsuit complaint and positivity complaint successful America,” Hogan said.

This comes arsenic the authorities reported conscionable nether 1,000 caller COVID-19 cases and 5 deaths Sunday.

“We’re precise acrophobic astir the dispersed of the Delta variant, our numbers are going up, but they’re going up from a precise debased place,” Hogan said.

The politician said his medication is pressing the national authorities to marque booster shots disposable instantly for seniors and susceptible populations, beforehand afloat FDA support of the vaccine and expedite support of vaccines for 5- to 11-year-olds.

“The bottommost enactment is, the higher the complaint of the vaccination successful a peculiar surrounding, whether it’s a school, a community, a state, the level of dispersed is going to beryllium overmuch little than without vaccination, ” Dr. Scott Krugman, of Sinai Hospital successful Baltimore, said.

With galore students heading backmost to the classrooms adjacent week, and immoderate already successful school, doctors are recommending students ages 12 and up who tin get a changeable to bash so.

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Right now, immunocompromised radical tin get a 3rd COVID-19 booster shot. Hogan, a crab survivor, said helium already received his booster changeable past week and is feeling great.