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.
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A report evaluating work underway to protect people from the health impact of climate change finds that the D.C. region is better off than most other states.
The report, called Climate Change & Health: Assessing State Preparedness, is from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Trust for America’s Health. It assessed all 50 states and D.C.
“The effect climate change has on our health is that it turbo charges long-standing dangers,” said Matt McKillop, a senior researcher at the Trust for America’s Health.
“Climate-related events, such as hurricanes and wildfires, have obvious health impact; others are more insidious, including more frequent heat waves and deteriorating air quality, chronic flooding and waterborne disease,” he said.