Maryland Reports 9,900 Deaths Since COVID-19 Pandemic Began; Baltimore County Will Mandate Employee Vaccines

TOWSON, Md. (WJZ) — More employers are mandating workers get vaccinated and that present includes those moving for Baltimore County.

“Vaccinations are a proven information measurement to assistance bounds the dispersed of COVID-19,” said Baltimore County Administrative Officer Stacy Rodgers astatine a quality league Thursday.

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Baltimore Co employees volition person until October 15 to taxable impervious of afloat oregon partial vaccination oregon waiver petition for aesculapian oregon spiritual reasons. Individuals who take to not beryllium vaccinated, oregon who person an approved waiver, volition beryllium required to beryllium tested connected a play basis. https://t.co/v5JgasyyO7

— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) September 9, 2021

The 9,000 radical who enactment afloat and part-time for Baltimore County volition person to get astatine slightest 1 dose by Oct. 15 oregon get tested weekly.

There are exceptions for aesculapian oregon spiritual reasons. The mandate includes constabulary officers and firefighters and the region is inactive moving retired details of the program with workers’ unions.

“The accelerated and ongoing dispersed demands we instrumentality further action,” County Executive Johnny Olszewski said.

As the latest effort to combat rapidly expanding COVID-19 cases amid the contagious Delta variant, we are requiring Baltimore County Government employees to amusement impervious of vaccination oregon beryllium tested for COVID-19 weekly.https://t.co/YJI03YmC51

— County Executive Johnny Olszewski (@BaltCoExec) September 9, 2021

Baltimore County joins Anne Arundel County and Baltimore City successful requiring workers to get the vaccines. The metropolis announced its argumentation past week and besides includes contractors doing concern with Baltimore.

All Baltimore City employees indispensable get vaccinated by October 18 oregon person regular investigating #COVID19 @wjz pic.twitter.com/yAGB46I82M

— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) August 31, 2021

George Alston of Baltimore told WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren requiring vaccines for workers volition marque him consciousness safer erstwhile helium has to bash concern with the city.

“This illness is not playing with anyone. You’re seeing radical dying and dying and dying. At immoderate point, idiosyncratic needs to person immoderate communal consciousness and accidental ‘Hey, radical are dropping similar flies,’” Alston said.

Biden: Dept of a Labor is moving connected a regularisation that volition necessitate each employers with 100 oregon much employees to mandate workers beryllium afloat vaccinated oregon tested weekly. @wjz

— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) September 9, 2021

Thomas Williams of Baltimore said helium was initially hesitant astir getting the vaccine but changed his mind. “Because of imaginable employment and decidedly protection,” Williams told Hellgren.

It comes arsenic cases are inactive connected the rise, with children making up 1 successful 4 caller cases nationally.

In Maryland, Lillie May Jackson nationalist charter schoolhouse successful Baltimore City has 16 confirmed cases, the second-most successful the authorities according to the Maryland Department of Health website. Quince Orchard High School successful Montgomery County has the highest fig of infections astatine 25. You tin spot the afloat list here. 

907 caller confirmed #COVID19 cases successful Maryland; arsenic of today, 9,900 radical successful Maryland person died since the pandemic began. @wjz pic.twitter.com/TK1jZ47YJN

— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) September 9, 2021

Maryland has present recorded 9,900 deaths since the pandemic began and much than 900 caller cases connected Thursday alone.

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“Everybody needs to instrumentality attraction of 1 different during these times due to the fact that it’s truthful perilous,” Alston said. “Yes, I bash deliberation we should person a mandate. Of course, we unrecorded successful America wherever it’s state of this and state of that, but it should beryllium a mandate due to the fact that it protects everyone.”