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The following press release is from the Virginia Hospital & Healthcare Association. Bottom line: we need to crank this up, big time, to Gov. Northam’s goal of 50k shots per day, if we ever want to defeat this pandemic.
Virginia Hospitals Announce More Than 175,000
COVID-19 Vaccine Doses Have Been Administered
During First Month of Vaccination ProgramÂ
More Than 73,000 Vaccine Doses Have Been Administered by Hospitals and
Health Systems in the Past Week; Hospitals Account for the Majority of Doses
Administered So Far in Virginia
RICHMOND, VA â Virginia hospitals have administered more than 175,000 doses of the Pfizer and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines in the four weeks since the Commonwealth received the first shipment of doses in mid-December. That figure reflects doses administered by hospitals as of Tuesday, Jan. 12. As Virginia Governor Ralph Northam noted at a Thursday afternoon news conference, âVirginiaâs hospitals and health syst
During his State of the Commonwealth speech, Gov. Ralph Northam outlined his plans to legalize marijuana and announced his intention to give teachers a raise.
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam has said he supports a bill introduced by state legislators to end capital punishment in the state, US media reported.
State legislators in Virginia’s House and Senate on Wednesday introduced bills that would abolish the death penalty and convert existing capital sentences to life sentences without parole, ABC News reported.
Later on Wednesday, Virginia Governor Northam said in his annual State of the Commonwealth address that he supports efforts to abolish Virginia’s death penalty, citing racial injustices in the criminal justice system and the possibility of the state condemning innocent people.
This is known to have happened at least once in modern history. Earl Washington, a Black man, was sentenced to death in 1984 and “spent 18 years in prison in Virginia, including nine-and-a-half of them on death row. But he didn’t do it”, Northam said in his address.