This letter provides important updates about the 2025-2026 COVID-19 vaccine. The State Health Commissioner issued a Statewide Standing Order authorizing pharmacists to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to adults consistent with FDA indication.
This communication describes recent updates to the Virginia Regulations for Disease Reporting and Control. These regulations were brought into compliance with changes in the field of communicable disease detection and control. The regulations were modified to conform to Chapter 375 of the 2024 Virginia Acts of Assembly.
VDH is providing updated recommendations for the management of healthcare personnel (HCP) exposed to or infected with COVID-19 or seasonal influenza. Healthcare facilities should evaluate VDH recommendations and consider updating HCP return to work and management guidance. These recommendations are not regulatory requirements or mandates.
These recommendations replace the 2013 guidelines. New recommendations include: (1) new antiretroviral drug regimens for postexposure prophylaxis (PEP); (2) a shortened duration of post-exposure follow-up HIV testing; (3) elimination of routine laboratory tests for antiretroviral drug toxicity; and (4) considerations for PEP for healthcare personnel with exposures to source patients with undetectable viral loads.
This Health Advisory summarizes CDC recommendations for U.S. public health departments, clinical laboratories, and healthcare workers about potential Ebola virus disease case identification, testing, and biosafety considerations in clinical laboratories.
This updated webpage provides fundamental elements to prevent measles transmission within healthcare facilities.
Healthcare personnel (HCP) immunization is highlighted as a first-line defense as well as the rapid identification and isolation of patients with suspected/confirmed measles. HCP education on respiratory protection and hand hygiene are also mentioned.
Measles and syphilis are both on the rise in Virginia. Clinicians are encouraged to stay alert for measles and help identify and reduce the spread of syphilis in Virginia.
Updated evidence-based guidance on safe injection, infusion, vials, and point-of-care testing, including new recommendations on contrast injection, drug diversion, and personal protective equipment.
Provides updates on COVID-19 disease reporting and control regulations related to a variance the State Health Commissioner recently signed.
Physicians, persons in charge of medical care facilities, and local health directors are no longer required to report suspected or confirmed individual cases of COVID-19.
Directors of laboratories are still required to report, and all suspected or confirmed outbreaks must still be reported.
