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2 sites for mass vaccinations to open in Prince George's Co., Baltimore on Friday 02/04/2021 03:29pm • Maryland will open its first two planned COVID-19 mass vaccination sites — one in Prince George's County and one in Baltimore City on Friday — but residents' expectations for getting an immediate shot are being tempered. The sites opening are at Six Flags America in Prince George's County and Why DC went ahead with vaccinating those age 65+ against COVID-19 02/04/2021 03:29pm • Life expectancies in D.C.'s many neighborhoods are playing a big role in how the District is rolling out its COVID-19 vaccination plans. "We have been very thoughtful about the age for our Phase 1b population," D.C. Health Director Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt told reporters during a Thursday news confe What a new U.Md. study says about skipping second doses of COVID-19 vaccine 02/04/2021 03:27pm • None of the trials conducted on the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines tested them on people who already had been infected by the coronavirus. Now, a study involving people previously infected with COVID-19 suggests the immune response from getting sick may act like getting a first dose of those d DC activates Carjacking Task Force after spate of violent thefts 02/04/2021 01:13pm • D.C. is ramping up efforts to stem the rising threat of carjackings in the District since the coronavirus pandemic began. Acting D.C. police Chief Robert Contee said Thursday that the city has started a task force explicitly designed to deal with the crime. Contee said D.C. is "pulling in our Va. Gov. Northam announcement due Friday: 'We want to extend our classrooms to this summer' 02/04/2021 11:41am • The specifics aren't clear yet, but Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam said he will make an announcement Friday, with the goal of helping students whose school years have been complicated by the coronavirus. "We want to extend our classrooms this summer, to allow our children to catch up, so that everyb Virginia lawmaker calls for steeper fines to combat pandemic littering 02/04/2021 10:59am • If you have noticed more litter along the roads during the pandemic, a Virginia lawmaker wants you to know that he has seen it too — and he is pushing for a bill that would increase the penalties for people who throw their garbage on the ground. "Restaurants are closed and people are eating mor Race, ethnicity data absent in thousands of DC coronavirus vaccine records 02/04/2021 09:40am • D.C. released early vaccine data on the race and ethnicity of residents who have received the coronavirus vaccine, but the District's health officer said it is missing some key information — namely race and ethnicity. Health Officer Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt said the data is incomplete, because the Anne Arundel Co. schools set March for return to hybrid in-person learning 02/04/2021 09:06am • Public schools in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, will incrementally welcome students back to school buildings on a hybrid learning model from early to mid-March. Anne Arundel County Public Schools said Tuesday that elementary school students whose parents previously opted in to a hybrid learning Prince William Co. on track to get kids in classrooms within a month 02/04/2021 08:53am • Students in Prince William County, Virginia's second-largest school district, are on-track to return students to in-person learning in all grades, by March 3. Unlike most Northern Virginia counties that implemented 100% distance learning after a December 2020 jump in positive coronavirus cases, P Virginia is halting deactivations of idle E-ZPass accounts 02/04/2021 08:38am • RICHMOND, Va. — Officials in Virginia say they are temporarily pausing deactivations of idle E-ZPass accounts during the coronavirus pandemic. Virginia Department of Transportation spokeswoman Melodie N. Martin told The Washington Post on Wednesday that the agency will make the change. She s Text of Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's State of the State address 02/04/2021 04:59am • Below is the full text of Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's State of the State address. 2021 State of the State Address As Prepared for Delivery Wednesday, February 3, 2021 Maryland State House, Annapolis Although it seems like a lifetime ago, just a year has passed since we last gathered with m Vaccine hunters: DC region's residents helping others sign up for COVID-19 appointments 02/04/2021 04:51am • COVID-19 vaccines are hard to come by, and some D.C.-area locals are helping to connect supply with demand. The coronavirus pandemic has created a new type of social network: They call themselves the vaccine hunters. Sometimes they work alone, other times in groups. They’re online for hou Prince George's Co. task force provides pandemic recovery update 02/04/2021 04:13am • A task force helping Prince George's County, Maryland, tackle pandemic-related problems and emerge stronger detailed its recent achievements and ongoing challenges Wednesday. County Executive Angela Alsobrooks created the Prince George's Forward Task Force eight months ago. During a Zoom meeti Some CVS locations in Maryland, Virginia to offer COVID-19 vaccine 02/04/2021 02:54am • Some CVS locations in Maryland and Virginia will begin offering COVID-19 vaccines to eligible groups starting next week. In Maryland, some 18 stores will have approximately 11,000 doses available starting Feb. 11, while in Virginia, some 28 stores will have approximately 26,000 doses. “Our p Johns Hopkins temporarily pauses in-person undergraduate classes due to cluster of coronavirus cases 02/03/2021 10:30pm • Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore has canceled in-person undergraduate classes until Friday because of what it called a cluster of COVID-19 cases. The cancellation applies to undergraduate in-person classes and activities on the Homewood campus, according to a letter sent to the campus commun