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America's weekend was marked by park days and protests over coronavirus restrictions 05/03/2020 04:01am • This weekend under the coronavirus pandemic drove many people across the nation outside -- some for recreation and others in protest. States across the US are either holding fast to stay-at-home orders or beginning to phase out the restrictions, with several orders alrea Virginia sees increase in coronavirus testing; more reopening details next week 05/01/2020 04:48pm • FILE — In this April 8, 2020 file photo, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam gestures during a news conference at the Capitol in Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File) Testing for COVID-19 has increased in Virginia, with Thursday seeing the largest number of single-day tests yet, and doctors will Blue Angels and Thunderbirds to soar above DC, Baltimore in tribute to essential workers 05/01/2020 11:15am • The military's elite flight demonstration squadrons salute health care workers and others on the front lines in the fight against the coronavirus over New York City on April 28. (Courtesy FEMA/K.C. Wilsey) The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and the Navy's Blue Angels will conduct a flyover through Data Doctors: Return of the 'sextortion' scam 05/01/2020 09:25am • Q: I just got an email from someone showing me one of my passwords and saying that they have been inside my computer for months. They are demanding money or they said they will expose my activities to my contacts. Is this for real? A: As expected during the lockdown, scammers are stepping up thei DC Mayor Bowser: New hospitals part of an emphasis on equity 04/30/2020 03:06pm • Saying that the COVID-19 health crisis is "laying bare the inequities in our system," D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser provided more details Thursday about two new hospitals and several other medical centers that will open in the coming years and said they will "transform our health care system by promoting Researchers from Johns Hopkins say contact tracing crucial for safely reopening states 04/30/2020 02:12pm • Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health discussed Thursday the need for an increase in contact tracers nationwide if states are to reopen safely in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Emily Gurley and Crystal Watson said that as states look for their paths to reopening, conta Maryland Gov. Hogan orders 'universal' coronavirus testing at all nursing homes 04/30/2020 01:58am • Gov. Larry Hogan issued an executive order Wednesday requiring that all residents and staff members at Maryland nursing homes be tested for the coronavirus, regardless of whether they show symptoms. The governor is also putting a National Guard official in charge of enforcing safety rules at long 'It's taken a toll on a lot of us': Md. ICU nurse on the COVID-19 front lines 04/29/2020 07:46pm • As the nurse manager in the intensive care unit at Shady Grove Medical Center, Nimeet Kapoor is used to spending a lot of hours tending to patients with a lot of infectious diseases. But the illness and the deaths brought on by COVID-19, he told WTOP, are something else. He said it means 10- to 1 'I wanted to say thank you': Montgomery Co. man makes PPE for health care workers 04/29/2020 07:15pm • Dr. James Gregory Jolissaint wears one of the masks made by Eugene Polishchuk. (Courtesy Dr. James Gregory Jolissaint) A Montgomery County, Maryland, software engineer turned a 3D printer he bought to make toys for his children into a machine that helps those on the front lines of the coronaviru Coronavirus intelligence void continues to impede response 04/28/2020 08:43pm • The infection rate and death toll in the U.S. from COVID-19 is soaring, and it will likely continue to do so unless better intelligence-driven decisions are made as part of the national defense against the virus, medical and intelligence experts told WTOP. “We could easily find ourselves right Getting unemployment benefits? What the fed, DC and Maryland will want back 04/28/2020 09:42am • Unemployment benefits are taxed, although how much depends on where you live. (AP Photo/Mike Groll, File) The $1,200 federal stimulus checks many Americans are getting are not subject to income tax, but unemployment benefits are. Depending on where the recipient lives, he could be subject to Low-income families in Montgomery Co. to receive financial assistance amid coronavirus 04/28/2020 06:10am • Montgomery County, Maryland, officials have a plan to financially support some low-income residents who did not qualify to receive a coronavirus stimulus check. The one-time emergency assistance check will go to families with incomes less than 50% of the federal poverty level who don't qualify fo What DC can learn from the 1918 flu epidemic 04/28/2020 05:52am • In this November 1918 photo made available by the Library of Congress, a nurse takes the pulse of a patient in the influenza ward of the Walter Reed hospital in Washington. (Harris & Ewing/Library of Congress via AP, File) Ever since the novel coronavirus began infecting millions globally an DC nurses praise recent guidance on COVID-19 testing for health care workers 04/28/2020 04:00am • Nurses praised the D.C. health department for its recent guidance for hospitals and health care facilities related to coronavirus. Last week, D.C. put out a health notice that calls for health care workers with a “history of exposure to laboratory confirmed COVID-19 patient” to get tested for Coronavirus update: Bowser says DC 'not there yet' on reopening but names heads of committee 04/28/2020 12:48am • When it comes to reopening D.C. after its closure during the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Muriel Bowser said simply Monday: "We're not there yet." The city has not met the federal criteria of seeing a two-week downward decline in positive coronavirus cases. "One of our criteria for reopening is