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		<title>Most Local Virus Deaths at Calvert Nursing Home; Hogan Boosts Aid on Lower Shore as Harris Rallies to “Re-open” Biz in Virus Hot Spot; Cecil County Launches Small Biz “Recovery” Plan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2020 00:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the COVID-19 virus continues to spread in Maryland, new—but flawed—data from the state Health Department shows that a majority of fatalities have occurred in nursing homes and assisted living facilities. But the state report fails to accurately depict the tally in Cecil County, where the state claims there was just 1 virus death at the Calvert Manor nursing home in Rising Sun but county health statistics show that 7 of the 8 total deaths in the county occurred at Calvert Manor. It is one of the sad ironies of the current pandemic that Calvert Manor—for many years the top-rated nursing home in the county, according to Center for Medicare/Medicaid Services (CMS) reports, for its quality of care and infection control efforts—has become the center of the pandemic in Cecil County. Under orders from Gov. Larry Hogan, the state began just this week to publicly identify confirmed cases and deaths at nursing homes throughout Maryland. The state report listed 16 confirmed cases of the virus among staff at Calvert Manor, with no fatalities, plus 53 confirmed cases among residents, with 1 fatality. But in response to questions from CECIL TIMES, county health officials said that the actual local tally was [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>COVID-19 Cases, Deaths Rise as Gov. Hogan Hopes to Re-Open State; Tests Lag on Shore—Hogan to Shore: “Drop Dead???”</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2020 00:30:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A CECIL TIMES SPECIAL REPORT NEWS ANALYSIS Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has a plan to re-open the state’s economy in a safe, staged fashion while coping with the COVID-19 pandemic but the numbers—rising infections, deaths and miniscule testing rates in the state—are getting in the way. And while most of the state’s virus testing, hospital expansion and emergency steps have focused on the Baltimore area and Washington suburbs, there is a growing threat on the Eastern Shore that has not been addressed. Unless the state steps up its attention to the rising virus problems on the Eastern Shore, we will be left to wonder if that famous New York Post headline of many years ago might be revived and modified to assert: “Hogan to Shore: Drop Dead.” On Tuesday (4/28/2020), the Cecil County Health Department reported, as it had a day earlier, that the local death toll from the virus stood at 8 people and provided an updated count of 165 residents testing positive for the virus. The state report issued Tuesday still did not update the fatalities for Cecil County and listed the 6 deaths from an earlier report. However, the 8 fatalities reported locally made Cecil County the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>COVID-19: Schools to Stay Closed to May 15; Cecil County Exec Proposes Emergency Medical Sites, Financed by Budget Cuts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2020 00:13:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cecil County Public Schools (CCPS) will remain closed through 5/14/2020, according to a new state order. And Cecil County Executive Alan McCarthy is proposing legislation for up to $450,000 in emergency medical services—financed by budget cuts and cost savings&#8211; to treat COVID-19 patients if there is a surge in the virus, which has already claimed two lives locally with 132 positive tests so far in the county. The Cecil County emergency health initiative would be financed by budget cuts and cost savings, and would not increase overall county spending or taxpayer costs, according to budget documents The proposal would greatly expand services, if needed for critically ill and recovering virus patients, at a time when confirmed cases have been rising significantly on a daily basis.. Speaking at an Annapolis press conference with Gov. Larry Hogan on Friday (4/17/2020) afternoon, Karen Salmon, the state superintendent of schools, announced that schools throughout the state would remain closed through May 15, extending previous orders that had shut down public schools across the state through April 24 due to the COVID-19 virus. But she stopped short of closing schools for the rest of the academic year, which extends through mid-June in most counties in [&#8230;]]]></description>
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