Pfizer has developed a drug called Paxlovid, which reduces hospitalization among high-risk COVID-19 patients by about 90%, according to studies. The Food and Drug Administration will not let doctors give this drug to high-risk COVID-19 patients because the FDA is not 100% convinced yet of Paxlovid’s efficacy and safety.
It read in part, “Students who choose to travel outside of Maryland and its adjacent jurisdictions (Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware and D.C.) should take a COVID-19 test within 72 hours of returning and self-quarantine.”
The letter goes on to say that the “guidance applies to spring break and any other travel a student may take during the school year and it also applies regardless of vaccination status.”
“We don’t want to have COVID 19 brought from other places where there may be higher levels of community transmission,” Gayles said.
Dr. Mona Gahunia, an infectious disease expert, said people should avoid public spaces like airports and train stations.
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Leaders in Washington region ask FEMA for help in vaccinating federal workers Julie Zauzmer, Rachel Chason, Rebecca Tan Leaders in the District, Maryland and Virginia made a joint request to the federal government this week, asking that it take responsibility for vaccinating tens of thousands of essential federal workers who live in the Washington region. “Our request, we acknowledge, is a little bit unconventional and unique. But we would like for it to be entertained and approved,” D.C. Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt said at a D.C. Council meeting Wednesday where she discussed the request.
Under the proposal to the Federal Emergency Management Agency and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Washington region would no longer dip into its overtaxed vaccine supplies to inoculate some 30,000 workers, including those at the U.S. Postal Service, certain essential workers in the federal court system and others employed by the Metro transit sy