To the Fairfax County Community,

I want to start with a few updates regarding vaccine operations. As you may be aware, CVS will begin offering vaccinations to eligible populations through a new federal program beginning Friday. To start there will only be one location in Fairfax County. Appointments are limited and for now their scheduled slots are already filled. This program was not created in partnership with our Health Department and thus will use its own scheduling system that will not select people from Fairfax County’s existing waitlist. 

If you have already registered to get a vaccine appointment from Fairfax County and are able to get one at CVS or from another provider first, please email ffxcovid@fairfaxcounty.gov and let us know so you can be removed from the County’s waitlist. You can read more about the program here.

In addition, some registration and dashboard updates that are upcoming:

• A public-facing online vaccine and registration data dashboard. The information will likely include the registration date that we are now scheduling appointments for, the number of people remaining on our waitlist, the number of appointments we have offered, how many doses Fairfax County receives from VDH each week, how many doses are distributed each week, and the total number of doses administered by the Health Department.
• An online vaccine registration confirmation form.
• An online self-cancelation system for residents who want to be removed from our waitlist.
• Weekly emails that will be sent every Sunday to people on our waitlist to remind them that they are still registered.
• Data cleanup on our waitlist that includes removing approximately 25,000 names from our queue due to duplicate registrations.

These updates were announced at yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting and will be in place in the next two weeks, with the confirmation system up and running by Friday.

See below for other highlights from our meeting. The agenda is available for your review here.

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