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The Maryland State Board of Ed votes for a statewide in-school masking mandate. Baltimore County prepares to reopen schools amid a county-wide State of Emergency. And in Garrett County, the vaccine clinic at the county fair meets with skepticism.

The Garrett County Health Department's mobile vaccine clinic at the Garrett County Agriculture Fair earlier this month encountered a lot of resistance and little enthusiasm for the vaccines.

Marjorie Fridkin, chief medical officer at Garrett Regional Medical Center, answers questions about some of the more common beliefs about COVID-19 and the vaccines to prevent it.

The FDA grants full approval to the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. And Western Maryland’s Garrett County has the state’s lowest vaccination rate, at 38 percent.

Garrett County, in Maryland's westernmost corner, has the lowest vaccination rate in the state.

Maryland’s two-year ban on hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, is expected to end in October 2017. But a small town in northern Garrett County…