Elsa Coffey, a freshman at CHS, noticed some students who stopped wearing their masks on March 1, but quickly went back to masking when they realized they were in the minority.
Category: Health and safety
These are stories about health care, environmental issues, policing, crime, the stresses of inequities — all the things that make us healthy or unhealthy in expected and unexpected ways.
Posted inGovernment and public institutions
Charlottesville’s 10th & Page has fewer trees and higher temperatures than other residential neighborhoods — and it’s not by accident
“What I think redlining and all of these nefarious urban planning decisions from the past show us is that decisions that we make can reverberate for a hundred years or more,” said Jeremy Hoffman, a researcher at the Science Museum of Virginia.
Posted inHealth and safety
PVCC has more nursing students than ever — but can’t find enough nurses to train them
“It’s a conundrum,” said Nicole Winkler, the dean of Health and Life Sciences at Piedmont Virginia Community College. “It’s a quagmire. I don’t know how else to describe it.”
Posted inHealth and safety, Our neighborhoods, Race and equity
Listen: ‘Sometimes we get 56.5 inches of snow. Sometimes we get 2.9 inches of snow’
Charlottesville Tomorrow reporter Erin O’Hare talked about preparing for — and the consequences of — winter weather on the Soundboard podcast.
Posted inHealth and safety
After days without power, families turn to their neighbors to stay fed and warm
People left without power say it’s been a brutal week. Some sought warmth in nearby hotels or houses of relatives or friends, others offered aid to friends and neighbors.
Posted inHealth and safety
Power out? Here’s where you can get a charge, water or just warm up
While Dominion Energy says its crews are working around the clock, as of Thursday afternoon, more than 500 of its customers in Charlottesville, and more than 14,800 in Albemarle County, are still in the dark — and the cold.
Posted inHealth and safety
Local schools will not follow new CDC shortened quarantine guidelines, as COVID-19 cases reach new high
The Blue Ridge Health District will host a town hall to answer your questions this week. A Tuesday evening townhall was postponed due to power outages.
Posted inHealth and safety
It’s getting hard to find a COVID-19 test in Charlottesville — here’s where you can try
The district’s Thursday clinic at Fashion Square Mall began at 2 p.m. Hundreds of cars circled the parking lot by 2:30 p.m. Those managing traffic and signalling people in couldn’t say how long the lines might get.
Posted inHealth and safety
State confirms first two cases of Omicron in northern Virginia, but officials aren’t saying exactly where
Somewhere in the northern part of Virginia, officials have confirmed the state’s first two cases of COVID-19 caused by the new Omicron variant of the virus. It’s unclear exactly where the variant was detected. Officials have broadly said that someone in the state’s Northwest Health Planning Region tested positive for Omicron on Thursday. The Northwest […]
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If you’re looking to donate food this holiday season, here’s what you should look out for before you hit the food pantry
The holiday season calls for giving. Food pantries across the country are receiving donations in droves, but what should you be giving? One in six people in Charlottesville are considered food insecure, according to the PB&J Fund. The city exceeds the state average at 11.9% or over 1 in ten people. Food banks are a […]
