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A Daily Summary of Healthcare and Business News
08/08/2022 - CNN by: Elizabeth Cohen
WASHINGTON, DC - Data obtained by CNN from New York’s largest health-care provider indicates you’re very unlikely to become severely ill with Covid-19 if you’re under age 60, up to date on your Covid-19 vaccines and don’t have underlying health problems, backing up a government plan expected to be announced this week that will ease up on coronavirus restrictions.
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08/08/2022 - WBOY by: Addy Bink
WASHINGTON, DC - Nearly one in five adults in the U.S. who had COVID-19 is still dealing with symptoms of the virus, a phenomenon commonly known as “long COVID.” A new study found there may be more than one variation of long COVID.
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08/08/2022 - Politico by: Adam Cancryn and David Lim
WASHINGTON, DC - The Biden administration is expected to extend the Covid-19 public health emergency once again, ensuring that federal measures expanding access to health coverage, vaccines and treatments remain in place beyond the midterm elections, three people with knowledge of the matter told POLITICO.
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08/08/2022 - The Parkersburg News and Sentinel
CHARLESTON, WV - Active COVID-19 cases in West Virginia increased almost 400 from Thursday to Friday morning, the Department of Health and Human Resources reported Friday.
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08/08/2022 - Modern Healthcare by: Caroline Hudson
WASHINGTON, DC - Labor costs, driven by demand for contract workers amid staff shortages, were the hot topic in the hospital industry's second-quarter earnings reports.
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08/08/2022 - WVNews by: JoAnn Snoderly
CHARLESTON, WV - The number of monkeypox cases in the United States climbed to more than 7,100 by Thursday, up from fewer than 5,000 cases just a week prior, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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08/08/2022 - My Buckhannon
MORGANTOWN, WV - Radiation oncologists at the WVU Cancer Institute are the first in the state to implement PluvictoTM (lutetium Lu 177 vipivotide tetraxetan), a new treatment for metastatic prostate-specific membrane antigen-positive metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (PSMA-positive mCRPC), which has spread to other parts of the body and has been resistant to other treatments.
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