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In this 2017 photo, captured inside a clinical setting, a health care provider was placing a bandage on the injection site of a child, who had just received a seasonal influenza vaccine. Children younger than 5-years-old, and especially those younger than 2-years-old, are at high risk of developing serious flu-related complications. A flu vaccine offers the best defense against flu, and its potentially serious consequences, and can also reduce the spread of flu to others.
Ransom: Routine immunizations need to get back on track for back to school
August 30, 2021 -

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant and troubling drop in routine immunization rates in Maryland, as many parents were forced to delay or cancel annual health care services and well-child visits. In 2020, for example, pre-kindergarten immunization rates fell an astounding 76 percent. The result is that, even as coronavirus vaccination rates climb, many Maryland children may be vulnerable to other dangerous vaccine-preventable illnesses.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
DeFilippo: Baltimore’s Red Line Rumble Depends on Which Party Elects the Next Governor
August 30, 2021 -

Transportation issues are rarely about getting from here to there. Usually they involve money, race, labor unions, jobs, votes, and whose back porch will disappear in the bulldozer’s path. So saying, there are two sticks of dynamite in the newly invigorated push to revive Baltimore’s stranded Red Line project: (1) The party of the governor who’s elected next year; or (2) The costly and redundant tunnel section of the original plan.

Read More: Maryland Matters
Glassman: Celebrate National Recovery Month in Harford County this September
August 30, 2021 -

The national tragedy of addiction has touched families in every ZIP code in Harford County. The good news is that recovery is possible and life in recovery is wonderful. Harford County will bring this message of hope to local families as we celebrate National Recovery Month this September. Working with community partners, we have planned activities and events to remove stigmas about mental health and substance use disorder, share resources, and spread the word that treatment works.

Read More: The Aegis
King Jr.: Hogan Refuses to Lead on Indoor Masking Requirement
August 27, 2021 -

As the delta variant rages and threatens to disrupt another school year, it’s past time for Gov. Larry Hogan to step up, heed the science and acknowledge that the COVID-19 emergency is not over. He must reject short-sighted partisanship by following the example of the more than dozen states – including Delaware, New Jersey and Virginia – which have already established statewide mandates for indoor masking in schools, and governors like California’s Gavin Newson, who is requiring vaccinations for educators and education support professionals.

Read More: Maryland Matters
Improving public transportation is key to reversing Baltimore’s population loss
August 27, 2021 -

Many of the stories about the new census data showing Baltimore City lost over 27,000 people (5.7% of its population) from 2010 to 2020 neglected to mention Baltimore is the only major city in the northeast corridor to see its population decrease over the past decade. Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Boston and New York all gained residents during this period — ranging from a 5.1% increase in Philadelphia to 14.6% in Washington.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Reich: Our clean-air crisis demands urgent action
August 27, 2021 -

On Saturday morning I met a friend for breakfast at a local diner. We weren’t sure whether to sit outside because of the surging delta variant of COVID-19 or inside because stinging smoke from wildfires consuming northern and western California had spread into the Bay Area. Our small dilemma was a microcosm of what many Americans are going through or will be soon. The combination of multiplying COVID-19 variants and mounting environmental damage is making the air dangerous to breathe, inside or out.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Air air pollution climate change dawn
A new Operation Warp Speed is needed, this time for climate change
August 26, 2021 -

Just about every day I see things that prompt me to ask, “What’s taking so long?” This happens a lot with regard to climate change. The clock is ticking, and ticking louder, as the planet gets warmer, and we human beings — supposedly the most advanced form of life on the planet — still fail to come up with solutions. Check that: We come up with solutions, or know what they are; we just don’t bring them to scale fast enough. And we’re cheap when it comes to paying for them.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Leonard Pitts Jr.: The dots falling from the sky had names
August 26, 2021 -

Last week, at least two men fell from a U.S. military plane as it climbed into the skies above Afghanistan. In video taken from the ground, they are so small you almost have to squint to see them. They seem roughly the size of a period, the end to some sentence no one wrote. But no, we are told those figures are Afghan men, plunging to their deaths.

Read More: Baltimore Sun
Moore: American values at stake in Afghanistan withdrawal
August 25, 2021 -

I joined the Army before there was a war, and I never thought that one would come so soon. I joined because so many of the virtues and values I believed in as a young man had been taught to me by the instructors and Army officers I met at the military school my mom sent me to in hopes that I would stay out of trouble. I later became a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division and sought to live the values

Read More: Capital Gazette
Rodricks: A new Operation Warp Speed is needed, this time for climate change
August 25, 2021 -

Just about every day I see things that prompt me to ask, “What’s taking so long?” This happens a lot with regard to climate change. The clock is ticking, and ticking louder, as the planet gets warmer, and we human beings — supposedly the most advanced form of life on the planet — still fail to come up with solutions. Check that: We come up with solutions, or know what they are; we just don’t bring them to scale fast enough.

Read More: Baltimore Sun

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