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Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center reopens 05/05/2021 01:26pm • The first of the Smithsonian's museums in the D.C. area reopened Wednesday. The Air and Space Museum's Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia, is back in business. Jeremy Kinney, associate director for research and curatorial affairs, told WTOP's Melissa Howell that the center hasn't been op Children's National opens vaccine waitlist for children 12 and up in anticipation of Pfizer authorization 05/05/2021 01:25pm • Children's National Hospital in D.C. is preparing to vaccinate children 12 and up pending approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. (Courtesy Children's National Hospital) Children's National Hospital in D.C. has established a waitlist for children ages 12 and up as the U.S. waits for the Food an 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 State Protections for Student Loan Borrowers: What to Know 05/05/2021 12:00am • States have been paying increasing attention to student loan borrowers in recent years. In response to rising student loan debt balances, at least 13 states have enacted laws since 2015 to expand oversight of student loan lenders and servicers, and many states have created resources to protect stud Pulmonologist With COVID-19 Treated Patients From His Hospital Bed 05/05/2021 12:00am • Dr. Roozbeh Sharif, 43 Title: Pulmonologist and critical care specialist, Medical Center of Southeast TexasLocation: Port Arthur, Texas In the summer of 2020, Dr. Sharif worked at a hospital in Corpus Christi that experienced a huge surge in COVID-19 patients. He contracted COVID-19 just after his Funeral Director: 'COVID-19 Has Changed Me Spiritually and Psychologically' 05/05/2021 12:00am • Stephen Kemp, 62 Title: Funeral director, Kemp Funeral Home & Cremation ServicesLocation: Southfield, Michigan Kemp owns a funeral home in a predominantly African American community in the Detroit area, as Michigan is only now starting to recover from an April surge in COVID-19 cases. Kemp desc Infectious Disease Nurse: COVID-19 in Some Ways Scarier Than Ebola 05/05/2021 12:00am • Kate Boulter, 60 Title: Nurse Manager, Nebraska Biocontainment UnitLocation: Omaha, Nebraska Part of the Global Center for Health Security at the University of Nebraska, the biocontainment unit treats patients with emerging infectious diseases, such as highly lethal Ebola. In February 2020, the uni 7 Consumer Cyclical ETFs to Buy Now 05/05/2021 12:00am • The cyclical spending outlook looks bright this summer.Many Americans are eager to return to the old way of doing things from before the pandemic -- big things like resuming summer vacations and little things like spontaneous trips to the mall or a favorite restaurant. With more than 100 million Ame 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