Three Rivers Pandemic Update
Pandemic status: New case rates across the US are rising again
Case numbers across the United States are rising slowly; the current case rate in the US is about 70,000/day 7 day rolling average. 25 states now report increasing case rates. Case rates across many European countries continue to increase.
Virginia is almost stable, our case rate is about 1400/day 7 day average.
Three Rivers has improved; our new case rate is averaging about 20 new cases/day, 7 day average.
There is agreement among public health authorities nationally that we are experiencing another pandemic surge.
In Virginia, about 33% of us have received at least one dose of the vaccine.
VDH: Overhaul to state vaccine registration system in the works State health officials are weighing whether or not to ditch the current system being used. By Henry Graff | March 11, 2021 at 12:22 PM EST - Updated March 11 at 6:14 PM
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - An in-house solution to Virginia’s vaccine registration woes is around the corner. State health officials are weighing whether or not to ditch the current system being used. That’s because PrepMod has a flaw. People can share registration links, causing confusion and delays.
Recently, a new system called VASE was piloted to help schedule appointments for the first community vaccination clinics, which are scheduled to open next week.
Some slots remain deferred or empty, because vaccinated residents are getting notifications for appointments they don’t need.
“They’re sending invites to people who are already vaccinated,” said Jeff Katz, whose mother received an appointment after already being vaccinated. “Of course, they aren’t going to take the appointment, so it scares me those appointments aren’t being filled.”
The vaccinated population in D.C. may be overestimated in this map because some non-residents who work in D.C. are included in the totals.
Meanwhile, other appointment slots are being shared with people who are still ineligible.
“I clicked on the link and it let me go to the scheduling system,” Katz said. “I didn’t do it, cause I’m honest, but it’s there.”
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Virginia could abandon vaccine scheduling software amid persistent problems Nurses wait in numbered stations to administer the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine at Richmond Raceway in Richmond, Va., February 2, 2021. (Source: Parker Michels-Boyce/ For the Virginia Mercury) By Kate Masters | March 10, 2021 at 9:10 AM EST - Updated March 11 at 10:37 AM
Virginia health officials might abandon PrepMod, a nearly $750,000 software system for scheduling, tracking and reporting COVID-19 vaccinations.
Dr. Danny Avula, the stateâs vaccine coordinator, said PrepModâs developers have been unable to fix recurring problems with the system, which have left it unworkable for many local health departments. State leaders have openly acknowledged those challenges since mid-February, when Avula announced they had given the company a deadline of Feb. 24 to address the issues.