Virginia’s Health Department says shipments of COVID-19 vaccines for those under the age of five began arriving Monday and shipments will continue to arrive throughout the week.
If a person is exposed to COVID-19, but has tested positive for and recovered within the last 6 months, or is up to date on vaccines, that person will no longer be recommended to quarantine.
Even after a widespread availability of vaccines and booster shots, the city of Richmond, Henrico County and Chesterfield County are now seeing levels of high community transmission, according to the CDC.
Some people are questioning how accurate at-home tests are as the coronavirus continues to create new variants. Dr. Amy Mathers with UVA Health clarifies.
Locally, the CDC is now reporting that Henrico County has moved to the medium COVID-19 transmission level joining Hanover, Chesterfield, Petersburg, and Powhatan counties. Richmond City is still in low transmission but could increase over the next few weeks, according to the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts.
Trying to avoid scenes of long lines and frustrations while trying to find COVID-19 testing, state and local health leaders are ramping up testing efforts once again.
Richmond city leaders gathered at Powhatan Hill Park on Tuesday to honor the lives of those who have died due to COVID-19 over the past two and a half years.
For the first time since February, Virginia’s percent positivity — the percentage of lab-tested COVID-19 samples that come back positive — has risen above 10 percent.
Doctors at UVA Medical Center say they are seeing a steady decline in COVID-19 hospitalizations. At a media briefing Friday morning, there is one adult and one pediatric patient being treated with COVID-19 there.
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a federal program has reimbursed more than $99 million to Virginia providers for offering testing and treatment to uninsured patients.
Richmond health leaders estimate, once approved, parents could see a COVID-19 shot available, for those under the age of 6, possibly by the end of April.
The Virginia Health Department says the BA.2 variant has been detected in low levels in Virginia. But, its parent, omicron, is still the predominant strain.
Virginia has been recognized as one of the nation’s best prepared states to respond to public health emergencies. A title that has gone undefeated for several years running.
A Richmond man hopes to get an important message to doctors and nurses at VCU medical center. Freddy Sexton Jr. spent months there with COVID-19 but continues to recover and get stronger.
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.
The department says the changes are meant to streamline data most effective for tracking COVID-19 and how Virginia is being impacted at this point of the pandemic.
A new study casts doubt on the effectiveness of the Pfizer vaccine for kids 5-11. Just as this age group nears the five-month window where a booster is typically recommended for other age groups.
