Coronavirus spike as Maryland prepares for busy week

MARYLAND.

THESE NUMBERS COMEJUST AHEAD OF HALLOWEEN.

THENSUNDAY, FANS ARE COMING BACKFOR THE STEELERS RAVENS GAME,AND ELECTION DAY IS TUESDAY.WMAR2 NEWSLIVE IN DOWNTOWN BALTIMORETONIGHT.

EDDIE MAYOR JACKYOUNG IS PLEADING WITH PEOPLETO TAKE THIS VIRUS SERIOUSLY?CORONAVIRUS FATIGUE IS SETTINGIN FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE ANDITTO HAPPEN.

ON THE STATE LEVEL,THEREFORTH ABOUT HOW WE'RE TRACKINGAND PRESENTING THE NUMBERS &CREATING EVEN MORE CONFUSION.HEREDAYS IN A ROW MARYLAND HASSEEN MORE THAN 900 NEW CASESTake pkg With the cold movingininvisible enemy wetrying to avoid since March.Stephanie Bekker Resident15:58:14-15:58:14“Wepreparing to hunker down againfor flu season and thewinter” In Baltimore City newcases are up 120 percentcompared to where we were FOURweeks ago.

FRIDAY Mayor JackYoung urgED people to keepTHEIR masks on and avoid largeCROWDS OR EVEN SMALLER GROUPS.Mayor Jack Young (D) Baltimore7:53-8:07“We are coming to atime of year where the risksare going to increase.

Theweather is getting and peoplewill want to spend more timetogether indoors.

A lot of thecases weindoor family gatherings” TheGovernor extended the State ofEmergency.

It effects theelection with morerestrictions.

MarylandComptroller Peter Franchotwrote a letter to GovernorHogan expressing concern withchanges in how the stateprovides data on positiveCOVID-19 cases.

Saying thestate now provides data on allCOVID-19 tests includingpeople who took more than onetest, which he SAYS CAN LOWERTHE positivity rate in thestate.

Franchot recommendedreporting the positive ratesof cases per 100,00 people ordividing the number ofindividuals testing positiveover the total number ofpeople tested.

Department ofHealth Secretary Robert RNeall says no calculationshave been changed and calledthe Comptrollers claims,politically motivated AND“fundamentally irresponsible.The death rate isnwith the positivity rate*right no*and that has someoptimistic as long as peopledo the right things.

MiqueasBarreiro Resident16:18;27-16:18:41“I feel likethis is kind of like trial andThanksgiving and Christmas.Those are obviously biggerholidays when ittraditional to get togetherwith people so Ithat time things are openingup and things will be a littlemore comfortable so we canhave some really goodholiday”SINCE THE FIRST STATE OFEMERGENCY WAS DECLARED ONMARCH 5TH NEARLY 143,000 HAVEBEEN CONFIRMED POSITIVE ANDMORE THAN 3,900 PEOPLE HAVEDIED.

THE GOVERNOR HAS RENEWEDTHE STATE OF EMERGENCY EVERYMONTH SINCE THEN.

IN DOWNTOWNBALTIMORE EDDIE KADHIM WMAR2NEWS.PEOPLE WHO ARE HOSPITALIZED ORQUARANTINED BECAUSE OF