Posted On May 3, 2021
Three Rivers Health District is now accepting appointments for vaccinations at two local clinics.
A clinic administering the first dose of the Moderna vaccine will be held at Rappahannock Community College, Glenns Campus, on Thursday, May 6. Appointments are available between 12:30 and 3 p.m. To sign up, visit https://www.vavax.org/reg/7516296011.
A second clinic, administering the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine, will be held at Newington Baptist Church, Main Street, Gloucester, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, May 11. To sign up for one of the 54 doses currently available, visit https://vdhems.vdh.virginia.gov/vdhapps/f?p=535:205:::NO:205:P205 CLINIC DETAILS ID:256797395542883893484664210900292081364.
The doctor said he knew he looked like an idiot, standing outside his office holding a handmade sign announcing a âCOVID-19 vaccine.â
But ever since Dr. Rosier Dedwylderâs practice in Dahlgren started administering the vaccineâ50 shots every Monday from March 22 onâhe and his staff made sure every dose landed in an arm.
Then last week, someone canceled late in the day, and the staff scrambled to find a replacement. Dedwylder sees patients, not only from King George and neighboring Caroline and Westmoreland counties, but also those over the bridge in southern Maryland.
The notion of one dose going to waste struck the medical team particularly hard, especially with the news coming out of India. People were dying outside hospitals because oxygen wasnât available, and there were horrible photos of multiple victims of the virus being burned on funeral pyres. COVID-19 has claimed more than 3,000 victims there each day for the last week.
Three Rivers Pandemic Update
Pandemic status: The US is improving
Case numbers across the United States are improving; the current case rate in the US is about 62,000/day 7 day rolling average. Fewer states are reporting increasing case rates.
Virginia is improving as well, our new case rate is less than 1200/day 7 day average.
Three Rivers is improving; our new case rate is averaging less than 15 cases/day, 7 day average.
In Virginia, about 43% of us have received at least one dose of the vaccine. In Three Rivers, almost 50% of our population has received at least one dose. 76% of our Three Rivers residents aged 65+ have received at least one dose.