Vaccine Queue Check System and County Dashboard are Live
  • I am happy to report that you can now get a sense of where you are in the County queue if you have registered for the vaccine. This Vaccine Registration Status Checker will allow you to confirm your registration is in the queue, what date you registered, as well as what date of registrations are now being vaccinated by the health department. Fairfax County will not be using the statewide system that the rest of Virginia will be using next week and all who have registered with the County will have their place secure in the queue. You do not need to reregister. If you have not yet registered, you should only use the County system to register as you are eligible. 

In addition to seeing what date of registrations are being vaccinated, you will be able to see how many people registered on a given day. While vaccine supply from the state is still limited each week, this should give you a sense of where you are in the queue. 

The vaccine data dashboard is also live and will hourly update the data on how many vaccines are received and administered by Fairfax County. 

For more information on the queue check system and the vaccine dashboard, see the latest blog from our health department here.

There are several improvements still being worked. Beginning Sunday, February 21, weekly emails will be sent every Sunday to people on our waitlist to remind them that they are still registered and to please be patient as vaccine supplies remain limited. An online self-cancelation process is also being worked so those that have been vaccinated elsewhere can remove themselves from the queue. Right now, if you need to cancel your appointment or registration, call the vaccine hotline at 703-324-7404. 

Our Health Department and Department of Information Technology have worked tirelessly to get the queue checker and dashboard approved by the Virginia Department of Health so it could be up and running for our residents. My hope is that these systems will bring more transparency to the vaccination process and some assurance for residents who are waiting in the queue, even as we continue to advocate for more vaccines from the state. I will continue to provide updates on our vaccine supply. 

Although we are still working improve, here are some positive notes on Fairfax County’s pandemic response that is better than the rest of the state, especially for our older adults:
  • Our case numbers are lower compared to the rest of the state at 27 per 100,000 in Fairfax versus 40 cases per 100,000 in the state.
  • Our numbers are trending down from January from 15.6 percent positivity to about 8.3 percent positivity.
  • Of our long-term care facility residents, about 86 percent have been vaccinated in Fairfax compared to 77 percent nationally.
  • Of our long-term care facility staff, over 70 percent have been vaccinated in Fairfax County compared to a little over 30 percent nationally.
  • The Health Department has worked with the state to match pharmacies to all our independent living facilities to provide vaccinations to those residents and staff through pharmacy partnerships. Those pharmacies will be contacting the independent living facilities. 

Overall, this is good news for our older adults who have been the most impacted by the pandemic and we keep working to speed up their vaccinations in every way we can.