'Crisis standards of care': U. Md. Capital Region Health makes changes amid surge in COVID-19 cases.

On Friday, the medical group announced changes that will allow staff to be reassigned to areas of need and for surgeries to be postponed.

*Prince George's County has especially been hit hard with COVID-19 in recent weeks, with recent Maryland Department of Health data showing a testing positivity rate of 29.13 percent in late December. That figure was the highest in Maryland. On the whole, the state averaged a testing positivity rate of 19.31 percent.

The Prince George's County Health Department added that the hospitalization rate in Prince George’s had also increased 27 percent since last week, reaching 200 patients for the first time since February 2021.'>

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