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CHARLESTON, WV - Some hospitals in rural parts of West Virginia have reached their critical bed capacities as coronavirus cases and deaths continue to surge statewide, health officials said Wednesday.

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WASHINGTON, DC - Valve-in-valve transcatheter mitral valve replacement (ViV TMVR) may provide value as an effective alternative to redo surgical mitral valve replacement (SMVR) in patients with mitral prosthesis dysfunction, according to new findings published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

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MOOREFIELD, WV - On Aug. 11, Covid-19 cases in West Virginia soared toward 5,000, and hospitalizations reached numbers the state hadn’t seen since the winter.

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WASHINGTON, DC - Health experts and medical groups are pushing to stamp out the growing use of a decades-old parasite drug to treat COVID-19, warning that it can cause harmful side effects and that there's little evidence it helps.

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HUNTINGTON, WV - As COVID-19 cases continue to surge across the state and personnel at local health departments remain the same, leaders at those facilities are being forced to scale back on contact tracing.

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WASHINGTON, DC - More than 95 percent of U.S. counties are now seeing “high” rates of COVID-19 transmission, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

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WASHINGTON, DC - COVID-19 booster shots may be coming for at least some Americans but already the Biden administration is being forced to scale back expectations — illustrating just how much important science still has to be worked out.

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