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CHARLESTON, WV - As of Thursday's report, Mountain Staters between birth and 30 made up only about 32% of all cases over the past seven days.

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CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia will be able to “internally prioritize” who will be eligible initially to receive the latest COVID-19 vaccine booster shot, said the state’s COVID czar on Thursday.

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WASHINGTON, DC - The federal government indefinitely delayed the start of the controversial radiation oncology model in a final rule published Thursday.

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WASHINGTON, DC - Health systems strapped for resources worry reporting on new quality measures and transitioning to interoperability as part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' final rule will be overly burdensome.

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CHARLESTON, WV - U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, announced recently that $313,700 from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development Program has been awarded to WVU Medicine Potomac Valley Hospital in Mineral County.

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WASHINGTON, DC - Dozens of small community hospitals with low inpatient volumes will likely be good candidates to convert to the rural emergency hospital model.

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WASHINGTON, DC - Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine was 73% effective in protecting children younger than 5 as omicron spread in the spring, the company announced Tuesday.

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