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Data Doctors: Which Google Pixel 5G phone should I buy? 02/05/2021 05:56pm • Q: I’m ready for a 5G phone and comparing the Google Pixel 4a with 5G to the Pixel 5 — is the Pixel 5 worth the difference? A: As 5G coverage continues to grow, upgrading to a phone that can take advantage of the faster speeds is becoming more attractive. Every major manufacturer now offer Mass vaccination sites open in Maryland, but the wait for more doses continues 02/05/2021 05:40pm • Gov. Larry Hogan visits the Six Flags America mass vaccination site in Prince George's County, Maryland, on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. (Courtesy Gov. Larry Hogan's Office/Joe Andrucyk) Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan toured the new mass vaccination site at Six Flags America in Prince George's County after Maryland Senate OKs about $1.5B in virus relief, stimulus 02/05/2021 01:13pm • ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The Maryland Senate has approved about $1.5 billion in pandemic relief. Senators passed the bill on Friday in a unanimous vote. The measure first proposed by Gov. Larry Hogan includes direct stimulus payments to low- and moderate-income residents. It includes benefits of u Northam: Get Virginia students back into classrooms 02/05/2021 11:28am • Gov. Ralph Northam pushed for Virginia school systems to begin offering options for in-person learning by March 15 during a news conference Friday. "Children learn better in classrooms. And that's where they need to be," Northam said. "We can do this and we must do this." Northam cited data fr 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 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 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 Doctor: 'Extremely exciting' to be vaccinating Prince George's County schools staff 02/03/2021 06:27pm • Receiving the vaccine here is Desann Manzano-Lee, an instructional specialist for PGCPS. She was vaccinated at the Kaiser Permanente Lanham Rehabilitation Center. (Courtesy Kaiser Permanente) From teachers and instructional specialists to bus drivers, Prince George’s County Public Schools empl Virginia surgeons lead the way utilizing revolutionary technology 02/03/2021 03:08pm • It sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but revolutionary technology is allowing surgeons to see more details inside their patients with less cutting, and doctors in Northern Virginia are leading the way on the world stage. Using augmented reality (AR), surgeons at Virginia S Black voices that make a difference: The Karson Institute's Karsonya Whitehead 02/01/2021 04:32am • Karsonya (Kaye) Whitehead wanted a place where people could go to discuss race, peace and social justice, so in October 2020, she launched the Karson Institute at the Loyola University of Maryland in Baltimore. Whitehead, an associate professor of communications and African American Studies at L