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KINGWOOD, WV - U.S. Rep. David McKinley, R-W.Va., was in Preston County on Tuesday to talk about the infrastructure bill passed by Congress and signed into law.

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CHARLESTON, WV - With hospitals overwhelmed with the influx of COVID-19 patients and with a shortage of nurses and medical professionals, some believe that now is the moment to remove a possible barrier, West Virginia’s certificate of need law.

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MARTINSBURG, WV - WVU Medicine Berkeley Medical Center, Jefferson Medical Center and the WVU Health Sciences Center Eastern Campus are sponsoring a virtual community mini-medical school program on Tuesday entitled “Kids & COVID.”

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WASHINGTON, DC - Unvaccinated adults ages 65 and older are nearly 50 times more likely to be hospitalized than seniors who have received a full COVID-19 vaccine and a booster shot, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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MORGANTOWN, WV - Researchers at the West Virginia Clinical and Translation Science Institute at West Virginia University are helping lead the way for understanding long-term COVID symptoms.

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CHARLESTON, WV - The surge of new COVID-19 cases in West Virginia driven by the Omicron variant is expected to “peak and plateau” sometime in the next two weeks, according to the state’s COVID czar.

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CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia on Thursday surpassed 400,000 COVID-19 cases since the pandemic began in the spring of 2020.

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