Options few for quieting D.C. helicopter noise, says new report
By Dan Parsons | January 8, 2021
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With about 30,000 helicopter flights near Washington, D.C., each year, helicopter noise is a real issue, but resident complaints won’t quiet the skies as most flights are conducted by the military and all must follow narrow corridors through highly restricted airspace, according to a new government watchdog report.
From 2017 to 2019, more than 50 operators flew 88,000 helicopter flights within 30 miles of Ronald Reagan National Airport, across the Potomac River from Washington, according to a Government Accountability Office study of helicopter noise published Jan. 7.
A 67-year-old driver from Mechanicsville is dead and another was hospitalized following a wrong-way crash on Route 5 in Waldorf early Friday morning.
The two-vehicle crash occurred around 6:20 a.m. on Dec. 18, according to a release from the Maryland State Police, which is investigating the incident that took the life of William Joseph Tucker, 67, of Mechanicsville.
A preliminary investigation found a silver Toyota Camry had been traveling south in the northbound lane of Route 5 at Pinefield Drive, and crashed head-on into a Ford F-150, which was being driven by Tucker, who was later declared dead at the scene, according to police.
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“Now we are able to spread the vaccine to other high-risk healthcare workers,” said Dr. Ankoor Shah, of D.C.’s Department of Health.
In order to coordinate the vaccination of these groups, those who have been added to Group 1A will have to register online. That process will begin later this week.
District officials say 12,600 doses of the Moderna vaccine are arriving from the federal government and 8,000 doses will come from Maryland.
DC to get 12,600 doses of #Moderna this week from the feds and 8,000 from Maryland. 8,775 doses #Pfizer from Virginia and 4,875 from feds. @nbcwashingtonpic.twitter.com/aKeKhcJGCY Mark Segraves (@SegravesNBC4) December 21, 2020
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As shipments of Moderna’s vaccine begin, local health officials are warning the public not to get complacent during the holiday season. My concern is that I don t want people to let their guard down thinking well there s a vaccine coming; I m not going to bother wearing a mask, I m not going to bother with social distancing, Dr. Fabian Sandoval, CEO and Research Director at the Emerson Clinical Research Center, said.
Sandoval is urging people not to travel for the holidays, even though things are looking up in terms of vaccine distribution.