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WASHINGTON, DC - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Monday authorized Pfizer booster shots for people aged 12 to 15 years, another expansion in the population eligible for the third shots.

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CHARLESTON, WV - Rapid PCR tests for the coronavirus have been made available to colleges and universities around the state as students begin to return to campus from holiday break.

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WHEELING, WV - The number of patients coming to WVU Medicine Wheeling Hospital with COVID has increased in recent weeks.

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CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia has surged past 15,000 active cases of covid-19 and more than 700 covid patients requiring hospitalization.

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CHARLESTON, WV - A couple of weeks ago, Sen. Glenn Jeffries, D-Putnam, and I attended the dedication of new facilities and services at Roane General Hospital, in Spencer.

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WASHINGTON, DC - Two doses of Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine slashed hospitalizations caused by the omicron variant in South Africa by up to 85 percent, a critical finding since the shot is being increasingly relied upon across the continent, researchers said.

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WASHINGTON, DC - The highly transmissible omicron variant of COVID-19 is sending waves of children to the hospital in record numbers, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) latest data.

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