The health department also has a hotline: 877-829-4862.
Fauquier County has a call center to help at
540-422-0111.
The number of people who want the vaccine far outnumbers the supply. It will require patience.
Fauquier Health vaccination information. Virginia has another 160 deaths â including the 53rd in Fauquier County â attributed to COVID-19.
But, the rate of new cases remains relatively low and the state over the last week has gotten close to Gov. Ralph Northamâs goal of administering 50,000 doses of vaccine per day.
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3,968 total cases in Fauquier since the pandemic began â up 16 from Monday morningâs report.
Fauquier public schools have 8 active cases among staff members and 9 among students as of Tuesday morning. The school system had 82 students and 16 staff members in quarantine as of Friday, Feb. 26.
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.
Virginia must accelerate vaccinations, governor says
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Michelle Crouse gets her first vaccine last month as Fauquier Hospital begins administering shots to nurses and other front-line employees. Donât save anything. Youâre going to get every dose you need because more is coming. But if youâre not using what you receive, you must be getting too much. Gov. Ralph Northam to healthcare providers
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Gov. Ralph Northam on Wednesday acknowledged that Virginia needs to speed up the pace of its COVID-19 vaccinations, announcing a âyou use it or you lose it policyâ prodding health care providers to administer the shots to more residents.
Vaccine rollout information inconsistent across Virginia
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Fauquier Health Pharmacy Director Gary Matthews with the first vaccine doses here on Tuesday. The Warrenton hospital and 17 others this week received the first shipments in Virginia. Whatâs been frustrating some providers in the field is that as some hospitals are individually letting people know what their priorities are, one of those priorities is whether youâre an employee of that hospital system. Dr. Mike Martin, Virginia chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics president
By Kate Masters
Virginiaâs first doses of COVID-19 vaccine, distributed and administered at hospitals across the state, were greeted with accolades â and relief â by health care providers, state leaders and a public thatâs endured nearly 10 months of a deadly and disruptive global pandemic.