Governor Hogan Press Conference
- “All hands on deck” effort to ensure access to vaccines
- 75.2% of Maryland adults are vaccinated
- Better rates than the nation and most other states
- 7-day positivity rate is 0.73%
- Case rate per 100,000 is 1.08%
- 133 hospitalizations today
- 2 million dollar vaccine lottery has been completed
- Turning efforts to getting more young people vaccinated: Introducing “VAX U” program
- MDH and MDHE- 1 million in college scholarships to kids 12-17 who get vaccinated
- 20 drawings- each one with the chance to win a $50,000 scholarship
- MD 529 prepaid college tuition
- Scholarship can be transferred to school of choice
- Provided through funding from the American Rescue Plan- federal dollars
- We are reinforcing the importance of getting every Marylander vaccinated
- New variants circulating
- 95% of all new cases from last month were from people who were unvaccinated
- 100% of all COVID deaths in June were unvaccinated Marylanders
