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On Thursday, Jan. 14, Gov. Ralph Northam authorized the New River Valley to expand vaccinations for COVID-19 to those aged 65 and over, as well as those aged 16 to
By Mary Biggs
She is vice chairwoman of the Montgomery County Board of Supervisors.
In spite of the lack of the COVID-19 vaccine, our very own New River Valley Public Health District has remained one of the top performers throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia in terms of administering the designated vaccine doses received weekly.
My counterparts from across the state have asked me how a health district in Southwest Virginia could bring such an incredibly strong and efficient response to COVID-19 in the New River Valley.
When I speak with them they want to know what we are specifically doing, and how we are doing it, because they want to see if something similar can be implemented in their own localities. I explained to them that our community has a long-standing history of coming together in order to help one another and to get things done.
Hurry up and wait. Any American veteran knows the feeling. Drill, drill, drill, and then wait for the bigwigs to figure out the next steps. I suspect leaders in the
Shot up lately? With a COVID-19 vaccine dose, we mean.
The Virginia Department of Health reported Monday that 458,472 have received first shots of the two inoculation dosage and 64,381 have had their full dosage of two shots.
Hospitals vaccinated 241,170 shots, 120,020 came from local health departments, 61,760 were administered at long term health facilities (nursing home and extended-care), 39,239 at medical practices, 46,457 by “other community providers” and 14,027 at pharmacies.
As of Monday, an average of 21,823 doses were administered daily.
The last time I received a shot for a widespread virus was one for polio back in the more than 60 years ago. Of course, we also had shots for smallpox and other illnesses too in those days.