As of Tuesday, about 18% of D.C. Fire and EMS’s employees were out because of COVID-19 cases or exposures.

“When I texted my husband about how long I’d been waiting, he said, ‘Don’t catch COVID waiting in the COVID line,'” one resident said.

All four of the individuals infected were fully vaccinated.

From its earliest days, the coronavirus hit Black people and neighborhoods the hardest, and the pattern has not changed since. 

About 50% of the unhoused population that uses county services are vaccinated. But county public health workers aren’t quitting.

The codes provide a digital alternative to paper vaccination cards.

The council has been extending the declaration every six months since it originally passed on March 9, 2020.

It’s the first death of a child under the age of 10 in Northern Virginia.

Schools have a lot to contend with as they return to daily in-person instruction: the transition from virtual learning, student social and emotional needs, and the regional surge in coronavirus cases.

Eight members of the D.C. Council are asking Mayor Muriel Bowser to do away with employees’ option to submit to weekly coronavirus testing instead of getting a shot.