They didnât quite get it done in a week.
But Virginia lawmakers still mobilized quickly to pass emergency legislation aimed at expanding the stateâs pool of COVID-19 vaccinators â a bipartisan priority as health officials prepare to ramp up large-scale vaccination events over the next few months.
Sen. Siobhan Dunnavant (R-Henrico) said building a qualified workforce has been a limiting factor as local health districts work to expand their immunization efforts to a broader swath of Virginians. A practicing OB-GYN, Dr. Dunnavant was the lead patron on the Senate version of a bill that allows any qualified health care provider in Virginia to volunteer as a vaccinator.
Community vaccine clinic administers 400 shots
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Under âPhase 1b,â all Virginians 65 and older may register â along with those 16 to 64 with certain medical conditions.
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The number of people who want the vaccine far outnumbers the supply. It will require patience.
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Editor Fauquier Hospitalâs Bistro on the Hill has a reputation for good, moderately-priced food, but Monday it also served up 405 doses of hope.
Local government and the hospital partnered for the countyâs most aggressive COVID-19 vaccination effort so far.
By noon, Fauquier career medics and Lord Fairfax Community College nursing students had administered 200 doses of the Moderna vaccine â half the clinicâs supply for the day.
Hospital clinic to expand vaccination effort here
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The county has assigned career medics to help administer the vaccine in cooperation with Fauquier Health and other community partners. People need to understand itâs not gonna happen overnight. Itâs gonna take months. Chad Melton, Fauquier Health CEO
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Editor Fauquier Health plans to administer 400 doses of COVID-19 vaccine Monday, Jan. 25 â the countyâs largest rollout of the shots so far to those beyond healthcare, emergency services, education and local government employees.
The hospital will use The Bistro as a clinic to vaccinate patients who have appointments set through the Virginia Department of Health, Fauquier Health CEO Chad Melton said in an interview Thursday morning.
Obituaries » Jerry M. Wood Jerry M. Wood, 83, of Warrenton, a retired pharmacist who served in the Virginia House of Delegates and on the town council, died Friday, January 8, 2021, at the Novant Health UVA Prince William Medical Center in Manassas of complications from COVID-19.
He was born April 15, 1937, in Roanoke, to the late Jeannette Jackson Minter Wood and William Howard Wood.
He graduated from Andrew Lewis High School in Salem 1957 and from the Medical College of Virginia School of Pharmacy in 1962.
Mr. Wood worked at pharmacies in Fredericksburg and Culpeper before coming to Warrenton in 1968 to join the Rhodes Drug Store staff. He owned and operated the Fauquier Pharmacy on Main Street from 1972 until he sold his business to Rite Aid in 1992. Mr. Wood continued as a family pharmacist with Rite Aid until his retirement in 2005.