Health lessons from COVID-19 paved a ‘roadmap’ for future disease responses, officials say

Health lessons from COVID-19 paved a ‘roadmap’ for future disease responses, officials say

Tonii Gedin concedes that there were some growing pains when the state began to grapple with the then-emerging COVID-19 pandemic five years ago, including how it spread and how to best combat it.

Lessons from COVID-19 paved a ‘roadmap’ for future disease responses, officials say - The Southern Maryland Chronicle

Tonii Gedin concedes that there were some growing pains when the state began to grapple with the then-emerging COVID-19 pandemic five years ago, including how it spread and how to best combat it.“We were learning. We were trying things and making the best decisions we could with the information that we had at the time,” said Gedin, the Anne Arundel County Health Officer who served as the deputy health officer during most of the COVID pandemic. A…

Lessons from COVID-19 paved a 'roadmap' for future disease responses, officials say - Maryland Matters

A sign over U.S. Routeh 50 in November 2020, part of a statewide campaign to encourage Marylanders to wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19. (File photo by Bruce DePuyt/Maryland Matters)Tonii Gedin concedes that there were some growing pains when the state began to grapple with the then-emerging COVID-19 pandemic five years ago, including how it spread and how to best combat it. “We were learning. We were trying things and making the best…