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January 26, 2022

The Talbot Spy

The nonprofit e-newspaper for the Talbot County Community

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COVID-19 Jan. 26 Report

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The Spy obtains information for the above chart between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Statewide data are updated about 10 a.m. each day. Johns Hopkins updates its data throughout the day.

Key points for today

• Community transmission of COVID-19 remains high. Wear a mask indoors in public spaces.

• Talbot County’s 7-day average positivity rate is 17.14% and its case rate is 109.87 cases per 100,000 population.

• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland is now at 943,613, an increase of 2,900 in the past 24 hours.

• In the past 24 hours, 46 people died as a result of COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 123,024.

• The state’s average positivity rate is 12.57%, down 0.9 percentage points from yesterday.

• The number of patients currently hospitalized is 2,234, down 127 from yesterday.

Pretty Cool: Adkins and Tubman Center Launch “Rooted Wisdom: Nature’s Role in the Underground Railroad”

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Adkins Arboretum, in partnership with the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park and Visitor Center, will commemorate the 200th anniversary of Tubman’s birth with the virtual launch of a guided experience, Rooted Wisdom: Nature’s Role in the Underground Railroad, on Fri., March 11 at 7 p.m. The event includes a short documentary film that will premiere via livestream, hosted by the Avalon Foundation and viewable on the project’s website, naturesrole.org. Following the premiere, audiences can watch a panel discussion with historians and the filmmakers and participate in a Q&A with the panel.

The 25-minute film and virtual companion explore how self-liberators used the natural landscape to forge a path to freedom. Historian and Menare Foundation President Anthony Cohen—who retraced 1,200 miles of this history by foot, boat and rail—guides viewers through the Adkins Arboretum landscape, revealing freedom seekers’ methods for navigation, concealment, evasion and nourishment.

Historian and seminal Tubman biographer Kate Clifford Larson noted, “Beautifully filmed and narrated, Rooted Wisdom reveals the remarkable literacies that self-liberators possessed and used to navigate and sustain themselves during their flights to freedom along the Underground Railroad. This remarkable film confirms freedom seekers and their families as early naturalists with enormous wells of knowledge about the flora and fauna of their worlds and offers us a fresh look at history on landscapes teeming with life. Simply breathtaking!”

After the virtual launch of the film, visitors to naturesrole.org will be able to view the documentary as a five-part series enhanced by information that invites a deeper understanding through detailed accounts of self-liberators, related historical sites and resources relating to the landscape then and now.

“The Arboretum’s restored landscape makes it an ideal setting for exploring the history of the

Underground Railroad,” said Adkins Executive Director Ginna Tiernan. “It looks similar to how the region would have appeared when Harriet Tubman and other self-liberators were making their way to freedom.”

Jointly produced by Adkins Arboretum and Schoolhouse Farmhouse Studio (SHFH) in collaboration with Cohen, Rooted Wisdom was filmed at the Arboretum over the course of a year. The project was supported in part by a grant from the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), funded by the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Funding from the Dock Street Foundation and private donors was also received to promote and broaden the project.

The Rooted Wisdom: Nature’s Role in the Underground Railroad launch and documentary film will stream live on Fri., March 11 at 7 p.m. The virtual event is free and open to all, though registration is encouraged here. The program will include a panel discussion with the filmmakers, SHFH’s Lauren Giordano and George Burroughs, and project collaborator and narrator Anthony Cohen. Goodheart will moderate the discussion.

COVID-19 Jan. 25 Report

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The Spy obtains information for the above chart between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Statewide data are updated about 10 a.m. each day. Johns Hopkins updates its data throughout the day.

Key points for today

• Community transmission of COVID-19 remains high. Wear a mask indoors in public spaces.

• Talbot County’s 7-day average positivity rate is 20.13% and its case rate is 109.10 cases per 100,000 population.

• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland is now at 940,713, an increase of 2,399 in the past 24 hours.

• In the past 24 hours, 74 people died as a result of COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 12,978.

• The state’s average positivity rate is 13.47%, down 1.34 percentage points from yesterday.

• The number of patients currently hospitalized is 2,361, up 31 from yesterday.

COVID-19 Jan. 24 Report

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The Spy obtains information for the above chart between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Statewide data are updated about 10 a.m. each day. Johns Hopkins updates its data throughout the day.

Key points for today

• Community transmission of COVID-19 remains high. Wear a mask indoors in public spaces.

• Talbot County’s 7-day average positivity rate is 19.85% and its case rate is 110.64 cases per 100,000 population.

• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland is now at 938,314, an increase of 2,690 in the past 24 hours.

• In the past 24 hours, 35 people died as a result of COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 12,904.

• The state’s average positivity rate is 14.81%, down 0.46 percentage points from yesterday.

• The number of patients currently hospitalized is 2,330, down 130 from yesterday.

COVID-19 Jan. 23 Report

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The Spy obtains information for the above chart between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Statewide data are updated about 10 a.m. each day. Johns Hopkins updates its data throughout the day.

Key points for today

• Community transmission of COVID-19 remains high. Wear a mask indoors in public spaces.

• Talbot County’s 7-day average positivity rate is 20.13% and its case rate is 107.18 cases per 100,000 population.

• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland is now at 935,624, an increase of 3,678 in the past 24 hours.

• In the past 24 hours, 53 people died as a result of COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 12,869.

• The state’s average positivity rate is 15.27%, down 1.13 percentage points from yesterday.

• The number of patients currently hospitalized is 2,460, down 173 from yesterday.

COVID-19 Jan. 21 Report

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The Spy obtains information for the above chart between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Statewide data are updated about 10 a.m. each day. Johns Hopkins updates its data throughout the day.

Key points for today

• Community transmission of COVID-19 remains high. Wear a mask indoors in public spaces.

• Talbot County’s 7-day average positivity rate is 22.69% and its case rate is 129.47 cases per 100,000 population.

• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland is now at 927,097, an increase of 4,736 in the past 24 hours.

• In the past 24 hours, 67 people died as a result of COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 12,751.

• The state’s average positivity rate is 17.14%, down 0.86 percentage points from yesterday.

• The number of patients currently hospitalized is 2,746, down 237 from yesterday.

Driver Tip: Infrastructure Upgrade on Goldsborough Street Planned for January 24

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Easton Utilities will be performing a comprehensive project along Goldsborough Street to replace and upgrade the water and wastewater infrastructure. Work is estimated to start on January 24 and will go through the end of February, weather permitting. Goldsborough Street will be closed Monday through Friday from 7 am – 4:30 pm during these dates. Please use caution in this area and follow all detours and directional signage to navigate around the work zone.  

“This project requires access to underground facilities, which unfortunately leads to traffic disruptions along a highly traveled street in Easton,” said Kelly Simonsen, Marketing and Communications Manager for Easton Utilities. “We appreciate everyone’s patience and observance of detour routes and signage to ensure the safety of all.” 

“We understand significant projects such as this one can be an inconvenience to our customers and those traveling through Easton; however, maintaining this critical infrastructure is a priority,” added Simonsen.

COVID Answers with Choptank Community Health #5

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As Covid Rates across the region continue to skyrocket the Choptank Community Health, and their partner, the Avalon Foundation have jointly produced an ongoing series that seeks to inform the Mid-Shore region about Covid-19.

Capitalizing upon the Avalon Foundation’s video production capacity  and using Choptank Community Health’s medical resources, the organizations have committed to producing two video Question and Answer sessions a week to inform the local community. 

 This program  features Choptank Community Health’s Senior Vice President & Chief Clinical Officer, Megan Wojtko, CRNP. 

COVID-19 Jan. 20 Report

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The Spy obtains information for the above chart between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Statewide data are updated about 10 a.m. each day. Johns Hopkins updates its data throughout the day.

Key points for today

• Community transmission of COVID-19 remains high. Wear a mask indoors in public spaces.

• Talbot County’s 7-day average positivity rate is 23.44% and its case rate is 138.30 cases per 100,000 population.

• The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Maryland is now at 922,361, an increase of 8,897 in the past 24 hours.

• In the past 24 hours, 70 people died as a result of COVID-19, bringing the state’s total to 12,684.

• The state’s average positivity rate is 18.85%, down 0.92 percentage points from yesterday.

• The number of patients currently hospitalized is 2,983, down 68 from yesterday.

 ESEC Hosts Zoom Call on Agritech Between Maryland and the Netherlands

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The world trend toward more locally-produced food requires a fundamental shift in how global food supply chains are organized and puts new demand on the technology needed to produce sufficient, high quality, diverse and healthy food. This topic and more will be explored in an upcoming webinar titled Growth Opportunities for AgriTech between Maryland and The Netherlands on Jan. 27 from 9 am-10.30 am ET (Maryland time) and 15.00-16.30 CET (The Netherlands time).

Both Maryland and The Netherlands focus strongly on local food production and ways to benefit from their central locations with easy access to densely populated areas. In 2019, the Memorandum of Understanding was renewed between the Maryland Department of Commerce and InnovationQuarter, the economic development agency for the Rotterdam-The Hague area in The Netherlands, to drive innovative collaborations between the two regions in several focus areas of mutual interest. The Jan. 27 webinar is part of a new initiative to connect the Dutch AgriTech sector with leading Maryland companies and organizations.

“In this webinar, both regions will highlight the commercial opportunities for innovative companies in the fields of agritech and aquatech,” said Mike Thielke, executive director of the Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center, who is the moderator of the webinar and part of the planning team. “Our organization, which includes F3 Tech and CyberAg, in partnership with the state of Maryland, is ready to help soft land Dutch companies interested in entering the U.S. market.”

In addition to highlighting opportunities for collaboration, the webinar will focus on timely topics like controlled environment agriculture and cybersecurity in agriculture.

“Progressing the Dutch AgriTech sector by working with Maryland companies is mutually beneficial, especially when looking at the crossover with cybersecurity,” said Rolf Karst, Project Manager Internationalization, InnovationQuarter. “The Dutch AgTech sector has a strong track record but is also evolving rapidly. For the sector to support current levels of R&D expenditure it is crucial to scale up the national and international activities. The U.S. is seen as a growth market and Maryland is well positioned to attract further investment in AgTech and food production in general. By supporting the collaboration of companies from both regions we want to stimulate this opportunity for more sustainable and healthy food production.

Event speakers include:

Signe Pringle — Deputy Secretary, Maryland Department of Commerce
Rolf Karst — Project Manager Internationalization, InnovationQuarter
Eric Egberts — CEO, Dutch Greenhouse Delta
Bert Feskens — Senior Programme Manager, Security Delta (HSD)
Steve Connelly — Assistant Secretary of Marketing, Animal Industries and Consumer Services, Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA)
Ewing McDowell — Maryland Department of Commerce
Chris Hlubb — Program Director, F3 Tech
Andrew Rose – Managing Director, CyberAg
Nina Lamba — Assistant Director, Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET)
Mike Thielke (Moderator) — Executive Director, Eastern Shore Entrepreneurship Center (ESEC)
The webinar is an initiative from InnovationQuarter, Maryland Department of Commerce, F3 Tech, Baltimore-Rotterdam Sister City Committee, Netherlands America Chamber of Commerce Washington Metro (NACCWM), CyberAg, IMET, Rotterdam Partners, Security Delta (SD) and the Maryland Department of Agriculture.

To register, please visit: https://events.innovationquarter.nl/MDNLwebinar

This is the first of several webinars the group plans to host in 2022. Webinar topics are expected to include cyberag; controlled environment agriculture; water management and responding to rising seas, unpredictable weather and climate change; row crop automation; best practices in multi-generational adaptive and resilient structural design.