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Mass vaccination site set to open inside Tysons Corner mall 04/19/2021 05:11pm • On Tuesday, a mass vaccination center will open inside Tysons Corner Center in Virginia. Set up inside the old Lord & Taylor store, the Fairfax County clinic will have the capacity to administer 3,000 shots a day. “Please get vaccinated,” Gov. Ralph Northam said during a Monday tour DC opens walk-in COVID-19 vaccine sites for seniors 04/19/2021 07:42am • Starting Monday, D.C. residents 65 and older can get COVID-19 vaccines at walk-up sites across the District without making an appointment in advance. Mayor Muriel Bowser and D.C. Health director Dr. LaQuandra Nesbitt said in a statement that each of the walk-up sites can take up to 30 people a da Frederick County schools planning in-person, outdoor graduation ceremonies 04/17/2021 12:24am • Public schools in Frederick County, Maryland, are the latest in the region to announce plans for in-person graduation ceremonies this spring. Each high school's graduating seniors will be honored outdoors at their home stadium. The school district said all COVID-19 guidance from the Centers fo $59 million available to low-income renters hurt by COVID-19 in Montgomery Co. 04/16/2021 11:00pm • More money is now available for Montgomery County, Maryland, renters hit hard in the wallet by the COVID-19 crisis. In its first two phases, the county's COVID-19 Rent Relief program provided more than $16 million to more than 4,000 low-income households. Now, the program has received a ca Pandemic prevention center to begin operations in Montgomery Co. 04/16/2021 09:47pm • Much like someone might go to their medicine cabinet for aspirin, a pandemic prevention center coming to the D.C. area will be creating drugs to respond to outbreaks of the future. The Global Pandemic Prevention and Biodefense Center is being launched by the nonprofit Connected DMV. Based in M 'Pissed off': Prince George's Co. launches new litter cleanup efforts, crackdown on litterbugs 04/15/2021 03:06pm • Officials in Prince George's County, Maryland, say they are cracking down on litterbugs and renewing efforts to clean up trash and debris that have piled up as county employees were sidelined during the coronavirus pandemic. County Executive Angela Alsobrooks announced Thursday she is naming a ne 2 tigers at Virginia zoo test positive for the coronavirus 04/15/2021 10:07am • NORFOLK, Va. — Two tigers at a zoo in Virginia have tested positive for the coronavirus. The Virginian-Pilot reported Wednesday that the Malayan tigers live at the Virginia Zoo in Norfolk. The zoo said it doesn’t know how its tigers were infected. It’s working with health officials and othe India Faces a Health Crisis As COVID-19 Cases Soar 04/15/2021 12:00am • NEW DELHI -- Earlier this year, it seemed that India had beat COVID-19. "India has successfully contained the pandemic," Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said in late January. The country had reported just 12,000 cases in the previous 24 hours, he said, down from 100,000 cases in mid-September. But no Fairfax Co. to move into Phase 2 as Northern Virginia expects to open up availability soon 04/14/2021 09:27pm • The latest Northern Virginia county to announce that it will move to Phase 2 with the rest of the commonwealth is Fairfax County. According to an emergency release on Wednesday, all individuals in the Fairfax Health District who are 16 or older will be eligible to schedule a vaccine appointment d Jailed students file suit alleging DCPS hasn't offered virtual school since pandemic began 04/14/2021 04:20pm • Two students who are serving sentences in the DC Jail have filed a lawsuit against D.C. Public Schools and the State Superintendent of Education, claiming that the city hasn't offered any virtual or in-person instruction to kids in custody since the pandemic began. In the complaint, the two incar Is the time of obsessive coronavirus cleaning over? 04/14/2021 12:53pm • Are you still obsessively cleaning to try to fend off the coronavirus? A local scientist says it's time to stop. "We can stop spraying down the groceries and wiping down the mail," said Donald Milton, a professor of occupational environmental health at the University of Maryland School of Public Defeating the Inequality Disease Must Become a Global Rallying Call 04/14/2021 12:00am • COVID-19 is making the global inequality crisis much worse. It's caused an estimated 120 million people worldwide to fall into extreme poverty. Since the pandemic began, billionaires' wealth has increased by $3.9 trillion while workers' combined earnings dropped by $3.7 trillion. The effects are sp Sinusitis: What to Know About Sinus Infections 04/14/2021 12:00am • Your head is full of holes. No, really, it is. Not just your nostrils, mouth and ear openings, there are also big openings behind the nose, inside the face. Called sinuses, these chambers are "empty spaces in the bones of the face and skull that surround the nose," says Dr. Richard A. Lebowitz, a r Education secretary Cardona visits reopened Prince George's County school 04/13/2021 10:53pm • A newly reopened Prince George’s County, Maryland, school got a visit from the country’s top education official. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has been visiting schools across the country for the “Help is Here” School Reopening Tour. On Tuesday, he visited Mary Harris &# With Nationals Park capacity limit raised, more game tickets are now on sale 04/13/2021 09:14pm • More fans will soon be welcomed back into Nationals Park, after the Nats were allowed to expand the ballpark's capacity limit to 25%. Additional single game tickets are now on sale for the Washington Nationals' four-game homestand with the Arizona Diamondbacks, which is set to begin on Thursday.