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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 Too much spring cleaning strains Northern Virginia waste, recycling collections 04/28/2020 04:20am • An excess of collected trash has been reported in Northern Virginia. (Courtesy Northern Virginia Waste Management Board) With more people staying at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, waste and recycling collections are under strain in all jurisdictions of Northern Virginia. Many of those peo 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 Georgetown University professor teaches remote acting classes under quarantine 04/28/2020 02:14am • Sarah Marshall hosts a Zoom class with her acting students at Georgetown University. (Courtesy Sarah Marshall) Tuesday marks the last day of classes for Georgetown University's spring semester, and due to her unique remote teaching, acting students won't be forgetting Sarah Marshall. Just 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 2 DC women raise funds to provide masks to vulnerable populations 04/27/2020 10:17pm • Two D.C. women have started a fundraising drive, with the goal of getting local garment alteration shops to make face masks to be distributed to vulnerable populations in the city. (Courtesy Abby Buskager) Two D.C. women are working to get cloth face masks made locally, and then donate them to r Maryland to expand coronavirus testing, detail nursing-home cases 04/27/2020 08:53pm • Maryland is adding two more drive-thru coronavirus-testing sites, and it's directing state health officials to provide detailed information on COVID-19 cases at assisted-living facilities. Beginning this week, testing will be offered at converted Vehicle Emissions Inspection Program stations in O How the pandemic may change where people choose to travel 04/27/2020 08:00pm • This July 17, 2017 photo shows the main square in the village of Assisi, Italy, in the Umbria region. The small town has been a popular pilgrimage site for hundreds of years, which home of several important Catholic saints, including St. Francis. (Albert Stumm via AP) When people begin making tr Why it's important to keep your kid's doctor appointment during the pandemic 04/27/2020 08:00pm • New mom Jennifer Jean-Pierre, of Upper Marlboro, Maryland, is sticking to her 3-month-old daughter Teagan's vaccination schedule. (Courtesy Jennifer Jean-Pierre) Some parents with COVID-19 concerns are choosing not to take children to the doctor. And a Maryland doctor says it's important to keep Maryland rolls out measures to help struggling unemployment website 04/27/2020 07:44pm • After a rough start on Friday, Maryland’s new one-stop unemployment benefits website has been struggling to handle a massive volume of applicants. And now the state's Labor Department has some changes underway to help the BEACON One-Stop application system work better. For starters, the syst Considering a divorce? Closed courthouses don't have to stop you 04/27/2020 06:55pm • Courts are closed in the D.C. area during the coronavirus pandemic, but people planning to dissolve marriages don't necessarily have to put those plans on hold. "What we're seeing is an uptick in mediation, which is really a great thing to consider," said Dianne Nolin, managing partner of Argent Virginia sees rise in virus cases at poultry plants; plans to ramp up testing 04/27/2020 04:45pm • "These poultry plants are part of a vital part of food supply on the Eastern Shore in Virginia," Gov. Ralph Northam said Monday. "I am very concerned." (Getty Images/iStockphoto/VLG) As a number of poultry processing facilities in Virginia see increased coronavirus cases, Gov. Ralph Northam said US senators: Lift 'needless' restrictions on pandemic relief funds 04/27/2020 04:10pm • Scott Cook, manager of Buddy's Crabs and Ribs in downtown Annapolis, stands outside waiting for some business. They are offering carryout and curbside pickup. (Photo by Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post via Getty Images) U.S. senators from Virginia and Maryland have joined more than 40 other l Children's National sees kids in intensive care for coronavirus 04/27/2020 02:53pm • In China and on the West Coast, data showed that kids mostly stayed out of the hospital if they got the new coronavirus. But it's a different story in the D.C. area. "We're really experiencing something a bit different here on the East Coast," said Dr. Roberta DiBiase, chief of the infectious dis Doctors, scientists push Northam to be more aggressive against COVID-19 04/27/2020 02:20pm • Mannequin heads wear masks in the window of a small boutique advertising availability of masks, gloves, and other pandemic necessities amid the coronavirus outbreak in Arlington, Virginia, on April 27, 2020. (Photo by Olivier DOULIERY / AFP) While the region has undertaken unprecedented steps to