Elle Meyers

A Culpeper sheriff is refusing to keep Gov. Ralph Northam’s stay-at-home order in place, even though his county has a higher number of cases per capita than many other northern Virginia counties, including Fairfax, which has the most cases in the state. Culpeper County has 329 cases of coronavirus, according to the Virginia Department of…

Gov. Ralph Northam was joined by Northern Virginia leaders online at a press conference Wednesday, where they emphasized that data on coronavirus cases and hospitalizations will guide any reopening decision. Fairfax Board of Supervisors Chair Jeff McKay said Northern Virginia’s close proximity to D.C and Maryland really makes it a distinct region.  “Folks travel from…

This is National Nurse Appreciation Week, and it comes as Virginia’s nurses have put their lives on the line to help stop the coronavirus pandemic.  As COVD-19 spread around the world, nurses stepped up to serve in a capacity many never saw coming, with their work putting them on the front lines of treating patients…

Gov. Ralph Northam said he has yet to determine how long local governments in Northern Virginia will be allowed to delay lifting coronavirus restrictions at a press conference Monday. Last week, Northam announced that if current trends continue, the commonwealth will begin the first phase of reopening on May 15. The governor also said he would…

As Gov. Ralph Northam readies Virginia for his first phase of recovery from strict stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of coronavirus, leaders in the northern part of the state say they are not ready to reopen. Health officials in the region released a memo saying that areas of northern Virginia do not meet important…

Gov. Ralph Northam officially said he expects the state’s “Phase One” of reopening to start a week from today. “I anticipate and hope that Phase One will start on May 15th,” Northam said at a press conference Friday. Northam cautioned the first phase of reopening won’t be a major shift from how the state has…

Students attending Virginia Beach Public Schools will not be graded on their academic performance for the final quarter of the school year.  The announcement from the schools’ superintendent, Dr. Aaron Spence, doesn’t mean that students can slack off in the final quarter of the school year though. To move on to the next grade level,…

Gov. Ralph Northam said he will not be opening certain parts of the state before others at a press conference on Wednesday. At an earlier meeting Northam said opening parts of southwestern Virginia, where the number of coronavirus cases are low, before other parts of the state was possible. But on Wednesday Northam said he…

UPDATE: Gov. Ralph Northam outlined exactly what will reopen and what won’t at a press conference on May 8th. See the details here. Gov. Ralph Northam said Virginia could start easing coronavirus restrictions as early as next week. Northam, who was speaking at a press conference Monday, said he was also extending his order requiring…

Doctors in Virginia are seeing a significant drop in children’s vaccination rates as the coronavirus pandemic continues., and they are warning that could make the state vulnerable to preventable infectious disease outbreaks in the future.  The Virginia chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics conducted a survey of more than 100 pediatric providers in the…