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Now that more than 70% of Marylanders have been at least partially vaccinated against the coronavirus, interest has waned for the shot that less than 90 days ago had residents jumping virtual lines and forming Facebook groups to track down an elusive appointment.
The number of Harford County Public Schools students testing positive for COVID-19 ticked up slightly last week, the second full week that children in elementary school have attended in-person learning at their schools.
The Harford County Health Department canceled a COVID-19 vaccine clinic Friday at Patterson Mill High School in Bel Air after discovering that approximately 90% of the people who signed up did not meet eligibility requirements.
Harford County schools Superintendent Sean Bulson vented his frustration regarding a lack of vaccines for school system staff, accusing state leaders of taking vaccines that could go to local health departments and keeping them for state-designated mass vaccination sites that have opened in Baltimore and Prince George’s County.