UVA Professor Emeritus Frederick Hayden and colleagues in Japan say a drug used to treat flu can also prevent it. (Credit: UVA)

Some public health experts worry that the arrival of flu season could be disastrous for hospitals already coping with COVID-19, but a professor at UVA’s School of Medicine says there’s reason to be hopeful.

Sandy Hausman tells why.

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Statues set in stone signify a sense of eternity.  But that view is changing rapidly as recent events demonstrate.

A Virginia Tech sociologist has been exploring how people in communities with Confederate statues relate to them today.

Robbie Harris spoke to her.

One of Virginia’s new gun laws has seen its first real world application. And a Virginia locality has found at least one benefit to the economic slowdown.

Those have been among the most read stories over the past week at the Virginia Public Access Project’s Va. News link.

More now from Fred Echols.

In Virginia’s statehouse in Richmond,  a statue of Robert E. Lee was removed Thursday night.

And as Mallory Noe-Payne reports, a state panel voted unanimously Friday to recommend removal of a different statue of Lee, this one in the U.S. Capitol.

Virginia lawmakers are preparing to tackle criminal justice reform in an upcoming special session.

As Mallory Noe-Payne reports they heard hours of testimony Wednesday from law enforcement, activists, and the public.

There are many unanswered questions about when and how Virginia schools will reopen and how students will get there. And at least two local governments have declared that the pandemic relieves them of certain requirements under the Freedom of Information Act.

Those have been among the most read stories over the past week at the Virginia Public Access Project’s Va. News link.

More now from Fred Echols.

More than 973,000 jobs in Virginia were spared through the Paycheck Protection Program, according to data released by the U.S. Treasury Department this week.

So what happens if businesses still cut their staff?

Cat Modlin-Jackson has this report.

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An outbreak of COVID-19 at an ICE detention facility in Central Virginia has advocates worried.

More than 100 people detained there have now tested positive for the virus.

Officials say it’s the result of transferring COVID-positive people from other facilities. Mallory Noe-Payne has details.

Housing markets in Virginia are on the mend, but the road ahead is still unclear for renters struggling to recover from the economic devastation of COVID-19.

That’s one takeaway lawmakers heard at a Virginia Housing Commission meeting Wednesday.

Cat Modlin-Jackson has this report.

Housing advocates in Virginia are celebrating landmark anti-discrimination laws that took effect last week (July 1st).

One prohibits landlords from turning away renters based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.

And, as Cat Modlin-Jackson found, another could help deconcentrate poverty and racial segregation.

The ongoing national debate over policing is raising new questions in Virginia about local government spending on public safety.

Michael Pope reports.