Baltimore County Department of Health

Position has been vacant since March.

Baltimore City Council considers adding a suicide prevention role to the city health department and renaming a park in honor of Tupac Shakur. A Baltimore County health center sets up at Security Square Mall. And the county school system plans to allow some students to learn online this school year.

Maryland is pausing use of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine at the advice of the CDC and FDA, after six recipients developed extremely rare blood clots.

Dan Torsch’s older brother John remembers. It was about 17 years ago. “I can trace his addiction back to one 100 milligram morphine pill,” Torsch said.…