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Bill letting schools offer telehealth advances 03/03/2021 01:30pm • This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s news partners at Maryland Matters. Sign up for Maryland Matters’ free email subscription today. An emergency measure, already approved in the Senate, to allow each of Maryland’s 86 school-based health centers to offer telehealth was Beltway Basketball Beat: Conference tournaments begin — and Girl Scout cookie rankings are in, too! 03/03/2021 01:22pm • The calendar flips long before the ball is tipped. And the final songs are sung for most of the Division I men's college basketball teams before CBS even starts to edit highlights onto the vocal track of the late Luther Vandross. When a victory exudes joy or most likely relief and a defeat brings CDC issues St. Patrick's Day warning amid pandemic 03/03/2021 12:50pm • The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is out with a warning about St. Patrick’s Day celebrations this month. The agency advises against gathering with a crowd of friends for green beer and good times. The CDC said gatherings to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day increase the risk of gett 2 Black activists on what changed in 2020 — and what didn't 03/03/2021 12:04pm • Last year saw the kind of attention, discussion and consciousness regarding race in America, and the D.C. area, that doesn’t come along very often. But how much momentum was there toward real change? And what can people do to maintain it? Two leaders in the D.C. Black community spoke with WT Virus prompts Naval Academy to move more midshipmen to hotel 03/03/2021 08:27am • ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A second wave of nearly 100 midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy is going to move to a hotel because of a COVID-19 outbreak at the school. The Capital Gazette reported Tuesday that nearly 200 students are now being housed at the Graduate Hotel and the Hilton Garden Inn. Th Md. lawmakers to debate all-virtual school option; MCPS considers next academic calendar 03/03/2021 06:58am • While there is still a lot of uncertainty surrounding education during the coronavirus pandemic, state and local leaders are planning for the future. One idea before the Maryland General Assembly would give students the option to enroll in full-time, virtual public school. It would allow the s Nearly 200 midshipmen moved to hotels as Naval Academy tries to curb COVID-19 spread 03/03/2021 05:45am • Nearly 200 U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen are now being housed in hotels as the academy tries to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 within the brigade at the academy in Annapolis, Maryland. The academy moved an additional 98 midshipmen to the Graduate Hotel on West Street in downtown Annapolis Tuesda Pepco says 'millions' in funding still available to help pay energy bills 03/03/2021 12:12am • Pepco is urging customers in need of financial assistance to apply for a wide array of programs it says has millions of dollars of funding still available, one year into the coronavirus pandemic. The utility company said it remains committed to helping District and Maryland customers who are str New report offers framework to address COVID-19 vaccine racial equity in DC 03/02/2021 07:32pm • The D.C. Council's Office of Racial Equity issued a report tackling the challenges that Black and brown communities are encountering as they try to get a COVID-19 vaccine. The report also provides a series of new suggestions to improve access, distribution and address policy barriers. The offi Doctors find way to treat lingering headaches in post-COVID patients 03/02/2021 05:50pm • Some people who have recovered from COVID-19 have reported getting headaches that can persist for months, but new findings are leading to COVID-19 specific treatments. According to a neurologist specializing in headache pain, "We have a treatment that not only controls the headache pain, but in a Baseball to return to Nationals Park — but without fans, for now 03/02/2021 04:46pm • Baseball fans that have eagerly waited to catch a Washington Nationals home game will likely have to wait a little longer. The D.C. government has approved the Nationals to play home games in their park this season, but there will be no fans in the stands because of the on going pandemic. In a Airlines say jobs, wages at risk if Congress doesn't step in 03/02/2021 04:32pm • Airline executives told members of Congress on Tuesday that the airline industry is losing an estimated $150 million a day, and they warned that tens of thousands of aviation workers could lose their jobs or face wage cuts if Congress doesn't again step in to help. They told members of Congress t Preparing for next vaccine phase, Montgomery Co. urges more sign-ups to boost equity 03/02/2021 03:29pm • Health officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, say they plan to start putting hundreds of recently authorized Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine doses into arms as early as this week. As they prepare to soon expand eligibility at county-run clinics for residents 65 and older, county offi Hogan names ex-CDC head as adviser, announces nearly 50k doses of J&J vaccine 03/02/2021 03:14pm • Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday named Dr. Robert Redfield, the former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as a senior adviser for public health. At a news conference, Hogan said the Maryland native would advise him on all aspects of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, Virginia reports new case of COVID-19 variant that emerged in S. Africa 03/02/2021 09:31am • A Northwest Virginia adult has contracted the B.1.351 variant of coronavirus, the Virginia health department said Tuesday. It's the first case of the variant in the northwest region of Virginia, which initially emerged in South Africa late last year, and is associated with an increased transmissi