‘Our Healthcare Workers Are Exhausted’ Frederick County Leaders Consider Indoor Mask Mandate If Covid Cases Continue Rising

While the pace of Covid-19 infections in much of central Maryland is slowing, Frederick County is dealing with a positivity rate almost 50% higher than Maryland’s average. That has county leaders talking about an indoor mask mandate. They discussed the issue this week. “We continue to have people dying from Covid every week. One person in the past 24 hours. It concerns me greatly in a period of high transmission,” County Executive Jan Gardner said this week.