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Fauci says Biden is 'doing really quite well' 07/23/2022 01:00pm • Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to president Joe Biden, says the commander-in-chief is "doing really quite well" following a recent COVID-19 diagnosis. The White House said earlier this week that Mr. Biden is isolating in the White House and experiencing mild symptoms. "The presiden Carmine's DC has served nearly 750,000 meatballs (and a lot of Titanics) 07/22/2022 11:27am • Carmine's, the New York City Italian restaurant known for its big family-style platters which opened a D.C. outpost in Penn Quarter in 2010, marks its D.C. restaurant's 12th anniversary in August. It said D.C. diners really like meatballs and garlic — and giant desserts. By its count, the Carmi Annapolis City Hall beefs up security 07/22/2022 10:09am • Visitors to City Hall in Annapolis, Maryland, will notice new screening measures aimed at enhancing security there, beginning Friday. Now, when visitors enter through the main building entrance, located at 160 Duke of Gloucester Street, they will be asked to either pass through a magnetometer or School Zone: What goes into crafting an equity policy? 07/22/2022 05:37am • Welcome to the School Zone, WTOP’s weekly feature about the latest topics and trends in education across the D.C. region. Fairfax County School Board working to craft equity policy What it is: Fairfax County Public Schools has started the process of crafting an equity policy, which school board COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are essential to protect against new variants 07/21/2022 08:30pm • The rapidly evolving coronavirus is zigzagging and evading vaccines intended to neutralize it, but researchers appear to have discovered a way to trap it effectively — if only briefly — with booster shots. COVID-19 vaccine booster shots work well to prevent infections from omicron and its sub How contagious is BA. 5, the dominant COVID-19 variant in the US? 07/21/2022 04:00pm • Cases of COVID-19 are on the rise. BA. 5, the latest mutation of the SARS-CoV-2 omicron variant, makes people with the disease more contagious than previous strains. But how contagious? "The virus variant BA. 5 has spread quite rapidly throughout the world," said Dr. Matthew Laurens, a professor WATCH: White House briefing on President Biden's COVID-19 diagnosis 07/21/2022 01:57pm • Federal health officials briefed reporters and the country on President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 diagnosis. Watch the briefing in the video below. Why is there a pilot shortage? It wasn't just the COVID-19 pandemic 07/21/2022 06:05am • The pilot shortage has its roots long before the current crunch. Industry leaders saw it coming more than three years ago — before the pandemic — as the global airline industry predicted a record number of passengers and the need for more planes and pilots over the next 20 years. Then came th Arlington to limit ICE interactions, end COVID-19 emergency declaration 07/21/2022 05:03am • One year after releasing details on its framework for interacting with immigrants living in the country without legal permission, Arlington County, Virginia, board members and County Manager Mark Schwartz passed a trust policy meant to limit interactions with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Novavax vaccine crosses the finish line (almost) with CDC recommendation 07/19/2022 03:48pm • Gaithersburg, Maryland-based Novavax is now one step away from all approvals needed for use of its COVID-19 vaccine in the U.S., following a recommendation from a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention panel. The CDC panel issued its unanimous 12-0 vote in favor of recommending the COVID vacc DC schools require COVID-19 vaccine for students 12 and up 07/19/2022 12:45pm • Students ages 12 and older will be required to get the COVID-19 vaccine to attend D.C. schools in the fall. The Office of the State Superintendent of Education announced that beginning in the 2022-23 school year, student immunization requirements include the coronavirus vaccine for all students o Friends since college, Fairfax Co. elementary teachers win same award a year apart 07/19/2022 05:24am • Amelia Carr first learned about Shelby Press while working at Top Golf the summer before starting college at the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. A co-worker who went to high school with Press suggested the two become friends. Carr and Press grew up a few miles from each other and went Rapid antigen COVID at-home tests available for people who are blind, have low vision 07/18/2022 09:37pm • People who have low vision or are blind can place two orders for free, accessible at-home COVID-19 tests to be delivered to them by the U.S. Postal Service. The Biden-Harris administration launched the new initiative a few weeks ago to expand the availability of testing options that are more acce Studying the effects of long COVID 07/17/2022 09:27am • Since contracting COVID-19 back in January 2021, Ken Todd has never made a full recovery, making him one of the millions who suffer from "long COVID." "In everyday conversation people say, 'Hey, how are you?' Or in emails, 'Hi, hope all is well.' And those conversations and those questions ar Boost now or wait? Many wonder how best to ride out COVID's next wave 07/16/2022 08:00am • Gwyneth Paige didn't want to get vaccinated against COVID-19 at first. With her health issues — hypertension, fibromyalgia, asthma — she wanted to see how other people fared after the shots. Then her mother got colon cancer. "At that point, I didn't care if the vaccine killed me," she sai