Hereâs an unusual question about vaccine registration: How does a person get off the state list?
Thomas Balch of Fredericksburg and two family members, all over age 65, signed up through the Rappahannock Area Health District website in January, then successfully got appointments through Mary Washington Healthcare during the brief period it scheduled them through its website. While MWHC workers and volunteers continue to vaccinate people at the Fick Conference Center, the health care system isnât creating a separate list anymore. All names come from the local health district.
Balch is concerned that he and his family membersâand others who did the same dual enrollmentâmight be âcluttering up the waiting list.â He wondered if he could remove their names so they donât delay others from getting appointments or cause an âadministrative burdenâ for workers.
In the year since COVID-19 almost killed him, Eric Bryant has worked hard to rebuild the strength and stamina the virus took from him.
He was 51 when he entered Spotsylvania Regional Medical Center on March 8, 2020, and became the first person in the Rappahannock Area Health District to test positive for the novel coronavirus.
Up to that point, Bryant had been active and healthy, an Army veteran working as an operations research analyst for the Navy. He ate well, went to the gym regularly and didnât take any medicine. He didnât even have a prescription for glasses, said his wife, Kristal.
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