Washington area health officials are cautiously monitoring the spread of another coronavirus variant in the wake of lifted mask mandates and more relaxed attitudes about social distancing.
for emergency authorization for another round of inoculations — for those 65 and older for Pfizer and BioNTech, and all adults for Moderna.
Mark Shaffer, the department’s spokesman, said the tool is more critical now that testing has mostly transitioned to at-home tests that are typically not publicly reported.The state’s genomic surveillance shows that BA.2 represents about 21 percent of new cases in Maryland. But the wastewater monitoring system has not signaled a serious outbreak ahead so far, Shaffer said.In Montgomery County, Councilmember Andrew Friedson announced Thursday that he had tested positive for the virus.
Sean O’Donnell, the county’s emergency preparedness manager, said Montgomery would reinstate precautionary measures in some higher-risk areas of the county, such as nursing homes or schools, if cases of new infection dramatically escalate.“This wouldn’t be a universal mandate,” he said, but a “focused implementation” likely involving guidance rather than regulation.
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