Overview
- The program offers free immunizations to Marylanders 19 and older who lack insurance or have inadequate coverage.
- Vaccines include COVID-19, flu, measles, pneumonia, shingles and RSV using state-purchased supply.
- Shots are available now in Baltimore, Garrett, Montgomery and Somerset counties, with additional sites expected in the coming weeks.
- The Maryland Department of Health is administering the initiative through local health departments to reduce preventable illness and hospitalizations and to narrow access disparities.
- State leaders cast the effort as a response to rising health-care costs and federal vaccine-policy confusion following a season with thousands of respiratory-related hospitalizations.