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Regardless of vaccination, everyone inside any health care facility, including doctor offices, is still required to wear masks, and all individuals are screened for coronavirus symptoms when entering.
Their vaccine coverage pales in comparison to the proportion of people immunized in James City County, one of the original hotspots for the public health crisis in Virginia last year, where half of all residents are fully vaccinated.
EVMS hired Tigercomm seven months ago when it clashed with Sentara over the future of the quasi-public school, which receives a majority of its funding from the not-for-profit hospital system.
Tigercomm, a PR firm hired to do crisis communications for EVMS, shares a founder with a blog that has been posting negative stories about Sentara since November. The school says it's not paying for or directing the content of the blog.
Over the past six weeks, the state’s average vaccination rate has dropped 64%. In mid-April, the state was administering some 78,000 shots a day. That rate has since fallen to about 28,000.
Sentara officials say the additional $40 million will pay for increased access to primary care and behavioral health services in underserved communities.
Data scientists monitoring the pandemic say even if transmission picks up again, the downward trend makes it unlikely Virginians will see a surge this summer anywhere close to the rise of this past winter.