The Virginia Department of Health’s Southside Health District is offering three weekly COVID-19 vaccination clinics in January to help you keep your New Year’s resolution to stay healthy. Read more
Governor Northam announced on January 6 that the Virginia Department of Health will open nine new Community Testing Centers (CTCs) to increase testing availability across the Commonwealth. Centers will be funded with an initial $5 million fro… Read more
VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital’s Family Care Center will be offering COVID vaccines for ages 5-11 Thursday, January 6 and Friday, January 7 from 1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. by appointment only. The child must already be established with CMH… Read more
Mecklenburg County’s, as well as the rest of the United States’, community transmission levels have returned to red. In the US, there have been 56,310,718 new cases in the past thirty days. The record-breaking amount of new cases recorded Jan… Read more
The Southside Health District has scheduled two other COVID-19 testing events to be hosted at the Clarksville Community Center. They will be on Saturday, January 8th and Saturday, January 20th, both from 3p.m. to 5p.m. Testing is free and thi… Read more
The Virginia Department of Health’s Southside Health District will offer two COVID-19 testing events this month on Wednesday, December 22 and Thursday, December 30 from 2 to 6 p.m. at the Clarksville Community Center located at 103 Woodland Drive. Read more
For the last year, the Virginia Department of Corrections (VADOC) has used an innovative practice as part of its response to the COVID-19 pandemic: studying wastewater samples at 40 of its facilities. Read more
Effectively immediately, the Virginia Department of Health’s Pittsylvania-Danville and Southside Health Districts will offer Pfizer BioNTech booster shots for 16 and 17 year olds. Read more
UPDATED: This article has been updated with more Clarksville Vaccination Clinic dates. Read more
COVID infection rates continue to lessen in Mecklenburg County. There have been 160 new cases this month, down from 203 that developed from the beginning of October to the end. Mecklenburg now registers as orange on the VDH’s community transm… Read more
Governor Ralph Northam announced October 27 that Virginia now ranks 10th among all states for the percentage of its population fully vaccinated against COVID-19, and for the total number of shots administered. More than 82 percent of individu… Read more
The Virginia Department of Health’s Southside Health District is offering booster shots for all three of the COVID-19 vaccines at three mobile vaccination clinics throughout the district. Read more
CVS Health announced Friday that booster shots for the Moderna vaccine are now available at most of their retail locations. Booster shots for the Pfizer vaccine were previously made available at the end of September. Read more
CVS Health (NYSE: CVS) today announced that, following authorization from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) based on guidance from the organization’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), select CVS Pharmacy … Read more
The three stages of COVID-19; Community Memorial Hospital respiratory therapist shares what she sees
Sandra Pearce, M.S., R.R.T., of Mecklenburg County, has been on the front lines of caring for adult patients with COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. She’s been a respiratory therapist at VCU Health Community Memorial Hospital in So… Read more
Virginia is currently in the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, cases continue to rise following the abolition of the mask mandate and schools going back to in-person teaching. The following graph illustrates the rise of COVID-19 cases sin… Read more
The Commonwealth reports that there have been 878,518 cases of and 12,955 deaths due to COVID-19 recorded statewide. While there have been a few breakthrough cases reported in fully vaccinated individuals, most newly reported cases occur with… Read more
There have been possible outbreaks of COVID-19 at three of the eight schools in the county. Mecklenburg’s case load has surged since the first week of September with over 200 new cases reported since September 1. Read more
VA Department of Health COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic at SVHEC Read more
Uh-oh. Your mother or father tested positive for COVID-19. Should you get tested? Read more
COVID-19 numbers continue to spike nationwide and statewide as variant cases rise. Mecklenburg County has now seen 2,722 total cases. Effectively, 1 out of every 11 residents in the county have contracted the virus at some point. An average o… Read more
August 25, Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital, as part of a larger system announcement, shared that they have expanded their employee vaccination policies to include the expectation that all team members and medical staff members will be fully… Read more
With Governor Northam’s latest announcement requiring state employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19, a lot of people are faced with making a difficult decision. To those state employees who have had COVID, it makes sense to them. Read more
Mecklenburg County remains in the red for community transmission on the Virginia Department of Health’s COVID-19 website. Between 8 and 10 new cases are reported countywide every day. Thankfully, no new deaths linked to the virus have emerged… Read more
Since December 2020, people have been rolling up their shirtsleeves for the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Authorized by the Food and Drug Administration for emergency use, the vaccine has now received formal FDA approval. What does that mean? Read more
