Richmond and Henrico Health Districts Director Elaine Perry and Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney each received their bivalent COVID-19 booster shots and annual flu shots Thursday. “Getting the flu shot and the bivalent COVID-19 booster is the best way to stay protected against respiratory illness and help keep transmission low this
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The new bivalent COVID-19 booster shot – designed to protect recipients against multiple variants of COVID-19, including the currently dominant omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants – is now available at some local physicians’ offices, as well as CVS and Walgreens stores, among other spots. Doses also will be available through
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After a three month vacancy, the Richmond and Henrico Health Districts soon will have a new health director. Elaine Perry will join RHHD as director July 10, allowing acting director Melissa Viray to move back to her previous role as deputy director. Perry is a board-certified preventive medicine physician who
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