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FREDERICK, Md. (WJZ) — While the gait of Covid-19 infections successful overmuch of cardinal Maryland is slowing, Frederick County is dealing with a positivity complaint astir 50% higher than Maryland’s average.
That has county leaders talking astir an indoor disguise mandate. They discussed the contented this week.
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— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) October 28, 2021
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“We proceed to person radical dying from Covid each week. One idiosyncratic successful the past 24 hours. It concerns maine greatly successful a play of precocious transmission,” County Executive Jan Gardner said this week.
Gardner noted, “We are lagging down astir of the large counties successful cardinal Maryland on the I-95 corridor.”
Data shows that 64% of radical successful Frederick County person been afloat vaccinated.
Some region leaders person reservations astir an indoor disguise mandate.
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“We are not going to beryllium capable to enforce this and mounting up a mandate is going to acceptable them up for failure,” said Frederick County Council President M.C. Keegan-Ayer.
The region enforcement said enforcement has been an contented successful the past. “We hired radical from extracurricular information firms to bash the disguise benignant of enforcement. It was specified a hard and unpleasant occupation that radical would not proceed successful a presumption to bash it. …Declaring a disguise mandate is 1 thing, but you person to cognize that it volition simply not beryllium enforced. We cannot adjacent prosecute radical to bash that work.”
Johanna Zimmerly lives successful Frederick County and told WJZ Investigator Mike Hellgren she would enactment a disguise mandate. “The personalities successful Frederick County are still, ‘I’m independent. I consciousness that thing is going to fuss me.’ There’s inactive a batch of radical who unrecorded successful areas wherever they consciousness they won’t get the virus,” Zimmerly said. “If the positivity complaint keeps going up, I deliberation the lone mode to spell is to enactment a mandate in.”
“I deliberation close present it’s not necessary,” said Hadley Zuse. “I enactment astatine the section java store close down the roadworthy and radical thin to deterioration masks anyhow conscionable for their ain safety. I deliberation if the employees are vaccinated it should beryllium harmless for everyone to conscionable bash what they please.”
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The authorities committee of acquisition said 70% of each teachers successful Frederick County are present vaccinated.
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— Mike Hellgren (@HellgrenWJZ) October 28, 2021
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