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Prince George's County sees progress in battle against COVID-19 12/08/2021 05:00am • While Maryland's Prince George's County still has what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention considers a substantial transmission rate for COVID-19, the county is starting to see the numbers decline, Prince George's County Executive Angela Alsobrooks said during a townhall-style telephone c Doing rapid tests for COVID-19 should be part of holiday plans 12/08/2021 01:26am • The head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is suggesting that people gathering for the holidays should do rapid tests for COVID-19 before getting together. "An at-home test can tell you if you have disease right now and whether you might transmit it to somebody else," Dr. Rochelle DC-area traffic congestion remains below 2019 levels 12/07/2021 11:08pm • Nearly two years after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, traffic analysis indicates that many in the D.C. area who commuted each day are still working from home. Traffic congestion remains about 65% below 2019 levels, according to INRIX, a company focused on traffic analytics. Driving fell o Boys' basketball on hold at Paint Branch High after over a dozen COVID-19 cases 12/07/2021 08:55pm • Health officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, are investigating a COVID-19 outbreak at Paint Branch High School in Burtonsville, Maryland, involving more than a dozen students that has temporarily put the boys' basketball team's season on hold. Since Friday, there have been 14 positive COVID-1 DC Council moves forward renaming Wilson High and requiring students to get COVID-19 vaccine 12/07/2021 08:03pm • The D.C. Council has voted to rename Northwest's Woodrow Wilson High School in honor of two Black pioneers from the school's history. The council also voted to add COVID-19 vaccines to the list of shots required for D.C. students. Both bills passed on first reading, and will have to pass again be Best way to capture cough or sneeze to avoid spreading an ailment 12/07/2021 01:10am • Small but rising numbers of flu cases around the nation have a Northern Virginia doctor urging people to get vaccinated and cover coughs correctly to avoid spreading ailments, such as the flu, colds and COVID-19. If you can't stop a cough, keep 6 feet away from other people and turn your head awa Md. pharmacies see closures, 'tremendous' increase in demand since coronavirus pandemic 12/06/2021 06:29pm • Pharmacies have been front and center of the coronavirus pandemic as patients seek them out for shots and counseling. The Maryland Pharmacists Association says it's having a major impact on business. "There has been a tremendous increase in patients in the pharmacies," the Executive Director of the Amid uptick in cases, Montgomery Co. gets largest shipment yet of vaccine doses for kids 12/06/2021 03:44pm • Montgomery County, Maryland, is seeing a rise in COVID-19 cases, but officials are hoping the county's high rate of vaccinations and a swift effort to get shots in the arms of young children will keep the uptick in check. This week, the county received its largest shipment yet of pediatric doses DC's forensic lab keeps looking for coronavirus variants 12/05/2021 02:30pm • Health officials are finding more and more cases of the omicron variant here in the U.S., including several cases found in Maryland. The D.C. forensic lab is responsible for identifying variants within the city and even finding new ones that may spread. Right now, the lab sequences nearly 8% of a Biden admin announces plan to reimburse at-home COVID-19 testing 12/04/2021 06:31pm • This week, President Biden signaled a new path in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic: expanding on demand, at-home testing. During an event at the National Institutes of Health Thursday, the president announced that private insurance companies will soon be required to cover cost of at-home COVID-19 t US drugstores squeezed by vaccine demand, staff shortages 12/04/2021 09:45am • A rush of vaccine-seeking customers and staff shortages are squeezing drugstores around the U.S., leading to frazzled workers and temporary pharmacy closures. Drugstores are normally busy this time of year with flu shots and other vaccines, but now pharmacists are doling out a growing number of C How Johns Hopkins Medicine is empowering kids with COVID-19 information 12/03/2021 11:07pm • Want kids in your school to be knowledgeable about COVID-19? You can invite experts from Johns Hopkins Medicine in Maryland to make regular virtual visits. The Johns Hopkins Health Education and Training Corps is getting experts into communities as a way to fight the pandemic. Working with kids i Md. school superintendents leaving the job at an accelerated rate 12/03/2021 09:30pm • During the course of the coronavirus pandemic, five Maryland school superintendents said they were stepping down when their contracts expired. This week, the head of the Anne Arundel school system said he will be leaving, too. One school administrator said it's part of a worrisome national trend. Fauci: Why the omicron variant is 'nothing to panic' about right now 12/03/2021 06:22pm • The omicron variant of the coronavirus has been reported in the U.S., including in Maryland on Friday, but Dr. Anthony Fauci said that although this latest variant is obviously of some concern, it's "nothing to panic about" right now. That's because "we don't know everything about it," said F Senate passes stopgap funding bill, avoiding shutdown 12/03/2021 05:54am • WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed a stopgap spending bill that avoids a short-term shutdown and funds the federal government through Feb. 18 after leaders defused a partisan standoff over federal vaccine mandates. The measure now goes to President Joe Biden to be signed into law. Earl