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Months of pandemic teleworking have left some missing their commute Katherine Shaver Even when Shayne Swift works from home, the high school principal ends her day behind the wheel of her forest-green Jeep Liberty, chatting by phone with family and friends. But Swift isn’t driving. Usually, she said, she sits parked in her driveway in Northwest Washington the closest she often gets to something she has dearly missed during the pandemic: her commute. Of course, she said, she doesn’t miss the traffic. It’s the 30 to 45 minutes built into her mornings, when she thought through her day or laughed along to a radio show. The drive home, she said, allowed her to catch up with loved ones via speaker phone, leaving her more present with her husband and daughter by the time she arrived home.
As part of the research initiative, a group of randomly assigned high-risk motorists will receive customized messages that might address their previous violations and the potential risk of a fatal crash.
The number of red light and speed violations, as well as crashes from the group of high-risk drivers who receive messages, will then be compared to a group that did not receive messages.
The goal of the “Identifying and Intervening with High Risk Drivers” project is to determine “whether proactive, customized messaging can change driver behavior and make our roads safer,” according to the website.
As of Tuesday, the project is reportedly in the “implementation” phase. The results are expected to be released in 2022 and they may be used to help shape programs and policies to help curtail serious crashes.
Health care workers from Inova Loudoun Hospital and StoneSprings Hospital Center started receiving vaccines Tuesday and Wednesday, marking a momentous milestone in the countyâs fight against the spread of the coronavirus.
Medical personnel and residents in long-term care facilities in Loudoun County will be the first to receive the COVID-19 vaccine tested and produced by Pfizer-BioTech. Some workers at Inova Loudoun Hospital received the vaccine on Tuesday, but Wednesday was the first official day for the rollout of the vaccine to health care workers in Loudoun. Hospital officials weren t saying exactly where the vaccines where being given to the frontline workers.