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08/24/2022 - The Bluefield Daily Telegraph by: Charles Boothe
CHARLESTON, WV - The death of a 13-year-old Nicholas County girl from Covid serves as a reminder the virus is still in the state and dangerous, Gov. Jim Justice said Tuesday.
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08/24/2022 - WVNews by: Charles Young
CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia is getting prepared for the rollout of new Omicron-specific COVID-19 vaccine booster shots, according to officials.
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08/24/2022 - The Hill by: Juila Mueller
WASHINGTON, DC - Overall life expectancy in the United States dropped by 1.8 years from 2019 to 2020, new data shows.
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08/23/2022 - The Associated Press by: Lauran Neergaard and Zeke Miller
WASHINGTON, DC - Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert who became a household name — and the subject of partisan attacks — during the COVID-19 pandemic, announced Monday he will leave the federal government in December after more than five decades.
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08/23/2022 - NPR by: Pien Huang and Will Stone
WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. is one step closer to having new COVID-19 booster shots available as soon as this fall.
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08/23/2022 - The Hill by: Peter Sullivan
WASHINGTON, DC - Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine was 73.2 percent effective against the disease in children under five, the company said Tuesday.
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08/23/2022 - The Hill by: Olafimihan Oshin
WASHINGTON, DC - The monkeypox virus has reached all 50 states.
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