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How vaccines could be sent by mail 05/05/2021 10:13am • New vaccine platforms are being developed that could transform access and ease of use for future pandemics, as well as for fighting existing diseases. Fairfax Co. lowers property tax rate, ups school funding to get past pandemic funk 05/05/2021 07:37am • Fairfax County's newly adopted budget aims to help residents in the Virginia county weather the yearlong economic dark clouds that arrived with the coronavirus pandemic. The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday passed a $4.5 billion spending plan for fiscal year 2022 that lowers the res DC encourages a return to the office to help small businesses 05/04/2021 08:36pm • D.C.'s government is signaling it wants employees who have been working from home throughout the pandemic to return to their offices downtown, with the hope that it will help small businesses and storefronts in the area. "We know that people have been working throughout the pandemic, but now is t Montgomery Co. approves $500K toward regional pandemic prevention center 05/04/2021 06:08pm • The Montgomery County, Maryland, council has approved a $500,000 appropriation to go toward a new pandemic prevention center. During its Tuesday legislative session, the council voted in favor of the expenditure that will go toward Connected DMV's plans for the proposed Pandemic Prevention and Bi Md. to require nursing homes to post vaccination data; Hogan eyes Memorial Day 'back to normal' date 05/04/2021 05:16pm • Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan says the state is issuing an order requiring nursing homes and long-term care facilities to publicly report vaccination data for all residents and staff on a weekly basis. The data will posted online, as well as in each facility, to provide "full transparency" to familie Prince George's Co. ramps up youth activities, vaccination outreach 05/04/2021 04:44pm • Last month's shooting death of a 13-year-old in Capitol Heights, Maryland, was allegedly committed by another child, who is 12 years old. And during a news briefing on Tuesday, Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks said the death of King Douglas is a reflection not only of the pandem Shot and a beer: DC offering walk-up vaccines, beverages at Kennedy Center 05/04/2021 02:45pm • D.C. is offering a walk-up vaccine clinic with a free beer afterward. D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the event on Tuesday. It’ll be held at The Reach at the Kennedy Center, 2700 F St. NW, from 4 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, May 6. Participants have to be 21 or older, and the clinic is administ 'The harder part is ahead' -- pace of vaccinations slows in Montgomery Co. 05/04/2021 01:28pm • Montgomery County, Maryland, is seeing the pace of COVID-19 vaccinations slow — and people in their 20s and 30s seem to be driving the slump, health officials told members of the County Council during a hearing Tuesday morning. Montgomery County residents are among the most vaccinated in Maryla Anne Arundel Co. sets COVID-19 vaccination clinics for students 05/04/2021 01:23pm • Students in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, ages 16 and up will be able to get COVID-19 vaccines through a series of clinics at 12 of the county’s public high schools. The clinics, which are also open to workers in the school system, will be held over three consecutive Wednesdays: May 12, May 19 Pandemic lockdown at DC jail begins to ease, but not by much 05/04/2021 05:48am • A strict lockdown at the D.C. jail has started to ease, but inmates are still being kept in their cells nearly all day as part of an effort to limit the spread of the coronavirus throughout the facility. For more than a year, inmates were confined to their cells for 23 hours a day. Now, accord Hogan: $100 for Md. state employees who get COVID-19 vaccine 05/03/2021 04:27pm • If you're a state employee in Maryland who hasn't yet received the COVID-19 vaccine, maybe some money will help sway you. Gov. Larry Hogan announced Monday that the state will "offer a $100 financial incentive" to workers who get the jab. "With this incentive program, we are further encouragin Bowser, DC officials address confusion over mask guidance; launch new portal for vaccine records 05/03/2021 04:22pm • D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser declined to address confusion Monday over the latest mask mandate to come out of her office over the weekend. The updated order, initially released Friday night and then updated Saturday, left some business owners trying to figure out what to do next. Asked at a Monday Federal authorities block fake websites in fight against COVID-19 fraud 05/03/2021 02:14pm • Maryland investigators said Monday they've seized their ninth fake website set up by crooks trying to cash in on the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal of the website "freevaccinecovax.org" was to steal personal information or install malware, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Maryland and Montgomery Co. officials seek to speed up COVID vaccinations, resettle unaccompanied minors 05/03/2021 02:12pm • Montgomery County health officials on Monday urged more people to get their COVID-19 vaccinations and said the county would be following the guidance of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over that of the Maryland Department of Health. Vaccines Dr. Raymond Crowel, director of t Prince William plans 5-day-a-week in-person learning in fall 05/03/2021 01:08pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner InsideNoVa.com and republished with permission. Sign up for InsideNoVa.com’s free email subscription today. Five-day-a-week in-person learning will be the default for Prince William County Public School students this fall, according to a plan pr