A bill that would require the Maryland Department of Health to create and implement a two-year plan for COVID-19 recovery by June 1, among other measures, is nearing passage in the Maryland General Assembly.
With a price tag of at least $152.5 million in federal funds, the COVID-19 Testing, Contact Tracing, and Vaccination Act of 2021 (SB741) offers a multifaceted approach to COVID-19 recovery through the next two years.
Central to the measure is a framework that would require the state health department to collaborate with local health departments to organize efforts to “monitor, prevent, and mitigate the spread of COVID-19,” the fiscal note says.
Included in the guidelines the bill lays out for state and local health departments are requirements to set precise targets for the number of COVID-19 tests to administer each month, creating methods for addressing responses that have fallen short, and a requirement to bill health insurance, when applicable, for all COVID-19 tests.
How about recovery by not paying them to sit on their butt, and go get a job… employees desperate for help!
152 million to create new health department jobs for restaurant workers that lost their jobs
what about the flu that comes every year. guess it doesnt kill as many people
It’s a proven fact that after you sit on your butt for 24 months you’re no longer employable
So we are going to throw more money at Covid19. What about Covid22 or 23 or Butthurt2021 with all the pent up anger out there.. even Lysol states is power kills 99.9% of stuff…INCLUDING Covid. Look at the label. Yet $152M is needed?
Hahhaahahahaha. Remember Alcohol is a remedy for lots of things. We drunks have been drinking throughout the last 15 months too…..and we didnt get it. JUST SAYIN. HAHAHAHAHAHA. Since we missed April fools 2020….APRIL FOOLS! HAHAHAHA