While some people may be rolling up their sleeves for third or fourth COVID-19 vaccination shot, there is a group that still can’t even get their first.
Congress failed to pass coronavirus funding in its latest government spending bill. Now, the White House is warning that next week it will have to pull back on covering COVID-19 tests, vaccines, and treatment.
It has been two years since the first COVID-19 case was identified in the Blue Ridge Health District. Now, it’s reflecting on how it can apply the lessons learned when future outbreaks occur.
Mask mandates will no longer be in place when Charlottesville and Albemarle County students, teachers and administrators walk into school Tuesday March 1st.
If you ordered your COVID-19 tests through the government and still have not received them, you are not alone. Although the website says shipment within 12 days, delivery times have been ranging from weeks to months.
Mask mandates are lifting around the commonwealth in places like schools and restaurants. While people are now making this choice for themselves, one UVA doctor is sharing his advice on moving forward.
Masks in Staunton City Schools was still something people wanted to talk about Monday night, despite a bill getting rid of a mask mandate now on Governor Youngkin’s desk.
UVA Health is loosening its restrictions as COVID-19 cases decrease in the Charlottesville area. Starting Tuesday, February, 15, patients at the University of Virginia Medical Center will be able to have one visitor.
If you recently tested positive for COVID-19 or were exposed, it can be confusing to know how long you should quarantine for, but there’s a new tool that can figure it out.
Doctors with the University of Virginia Medical Center say COVID-19 case counts and hospitalizations are down after an explosive post-holiday surge due to the omicron variant.
Virginia’s death toll from the coronavirus has climbed by 120 people since Monday, Feb. 7, with a positivity rate for PCR tests coming in at 19.1% across the commonwealth.
Getting Virginians boosted has been a tall task for health departments and healthcare workers, and there’s a wide gap among who is getting that third shot.
Although COVID-19 transmission remains high, Doctor Costi Sifri with UVA Health is remaining optimistic about the potential for cases to drop over the next few weeks.
A nasal or oral COVID-19 vaccine may be the way of the future. Even though getting a nasal vaccine is nothing new, a COVID-19 nasal vaccine is in the works.
