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Henrico Newsflash – Dec. 30, 2021

Dec 30, 2021

Virginia hospital, healthcare leaders issue plea about hospital emergency room trips

Worried about increasingly burdened hospital emergency departments throughout Virginia, state health and hospital leaders are taking the unusual step of urging people not to check themselves into a hospital unless absolutely necessary.

In a joint statement Thursday, officials from the Virginia Department of Health and the Virginia Hospital and Healthcare Association implored people with non-serious illnesses or those with asymptomatic or mild cases of COVID-19 not to go to the hospital for treatment.

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VanValkenburg ‘keeping all options open’ after redistricting, while Morrissey plans next move

Fallout from the widespread changes to Virginia’s state and Congressional voting districts has begun, but it could be weeks before it concludes.

In Henrico, which is losing all eight of its current Virginia General Assembly districts and replacing them with eight others, incumbent Democrats Schuyler VanValkenburg (72nd District) and Lamont Bagby (74th District) have been drawn together in the newly shaped 80th District, creating uncertainty about what might be next for both men.

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