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The summer could bring a longer peak almost as high as the one experienced at the beginning of this year, according to a new University of Virginia analysis.
While public health officials are targeting communities at higher risk of serious illness and death for the vaccine, perhaps no one has been more effective at reaching older Black Virginians than pastors, preaching the lifesaving benefits of immunizations from the pulpit.
Portsmouth was one of three cities in Virginia selected to have a FEMA-run clinic. State public health officials said they were chosen based on the size of their senior populations and proportion of Black and Latino residents.
Roughly 945,300 Virginians had been fully inoculated as of Friday, and about 1.7 million had received at least one shot, representing about 19.5% of the population.
Out of more than 76 million doses of coronavirus vaccines administered throughout the country in the first 2 1/2 months, the federal surveillance system received 1,381 reports of death among people who had received a shot. But CDC and Food and Drug Administration physicians have so far found no evidence in their reviews that a vaccination contributed to a death.
Pandemic watchers worry lax behavior mixed with a dominant UK variant could lead to a July peak more than twice as high as what has occurred in the past.
The high regional death toll comes on the heels of the United States recently crossing the threshold of more than half a million deaths from the coronavirus.