City Of Alexandria: City Of Alexandria Provides COVID-19 Updates; Tips For Going Back To School Safely; New VDH Case Dashboard

Press release from the City of Alexandria:

Aug 24, 2021 at 6:17 PM

Help end the pandemic by wearing a
mask over both your nose and mouth, washing your hands frequently, and
getting vaccinated. Approximately 1 in 20 Alexandrians who have tested positive for COVID-19 have required hospitalization, so without these critical steps, additional lives may be at risk.

Tips for Going Back to School Safely

As children return to school, families can take steps to reduce the risk of COVID-19. First, talk to your child about the importance of wearing their mask
consistently and correctly while at school, on the bus, and during extracurricular activities. In addition to preventing the spread of COVID-19 and keeping your family safe, wearing a mask consistently and correctly while in school could prevent your child from needing to quarantine for 14 days. The CDC’s revised

close contact definition excludes K-12 students who were within 3 to 6 feet of an infected student if both the infected student and the exposed student(s) correctly and consistently wore
well-fitting masks the entire time. Consider packing an extra mask in your child’s backpack just in case their mask gets wet or dirty while at school.

New VDH Case Dashboard

The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) has launched a
new dashboard that shows both the number and rates of COVID-19 infections, hospitalizations, and deaths in Virginia by vaccination status. No vaccine is 100% effective so it is expected that some fully vaccinated people become infected. In most cases, fully vaccinated people do not have symptoms or have only mild symptoms. These infections might also be shorter in duration. Vaccines continue to be the best way to prevent a COVID-19 illness and should be used with other methods, such as wearing a mask and maintaining physical distance, to further reduce the risk..

Alexandria COVID-19 Data At-a-Glance

The Alexandria COVID-19 Dashboard below shows the daily change in the number of COVID-19 cases, deaths and 7-day average, as well as the cumulative totals. The chart focuses on the past 90 days and provides context for the CDC transmission levels. An interactive version is available at

alexandriava.gov/114883. The Alexandria COVID-19 Vaccination Dashboard below includes total doses administered across all facilities, the percentage of residents ages 12 and older who have received at least one dose, the number partially and fully vaccinated, and progress toward Alexandria’s and the state’s vaccination goals. Vaccination charts are available at

alexandriava.gov/120654. Detailed data, including data on age, race and ethnicity, are available through links at
alexandriava.gov/Coronavirus.

At least one dose: Total number of people who received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, including those who received one dose of the single-dose Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine. This metric includes all people who have received only one dose and those who received at least one dose.

Fully Vaccinated: Total number or percent of people who have completed the recommended series of a given vaccine product (i.e., two doses of the two-dose Pfizer or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine or one dose of the one-dose Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen (J&J) COVID-19 vaccine).

Partially Vaccinated: Total number of people who have received the first dose of a two-dose vaccine course but have not yet received the second dose.

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This news release is available at
alexandriava.gov/123856

This press release was produced by the City of Alexandria. The views expressed here are the author’s own.