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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>Health Expert Cries &#8216;Fowl&#8217; on Chicken Farms; Cecil Co Council Questions Science</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past several months, a vocal group of local residents and allies in environmental groups have protested, waved signs and flocked to Cecil County government meetings to protest a proposed new organic chicken farm near Zion that they feel will reduce their property values and cause environmental harm. On Tuesday, they brought a public health expert to Elkton to argue their case. But the expert, Dr. Jillian Fry, an assistant scientist and project director at the Center for a Livable Future at the Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, repeatedly said under questions from County Council members that scientific data was unavailable to document certain health risks or “the science isn’t there yet.” Nevertheless, Fry said, “It seems people interpret a lack of local evidence proves there is no risk and that’s not true.” Fry noted that air pollution and emissions of particulate matter from large-scale poultry operations, such as those on the lower Eastern Shore, posed a greater risk of asthma for humans living near the farms. Large exhaust fans on chicken houses emit ammonia, “pathogens,” particulates and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s), Fry said. Councilor Joyce Bowlsbey (R-2) inquired what was the asthma rate in the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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