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CHARLESTON, WV - Gov. Jim Justice has appointed Michael Honaker to a vacant seat in the West Virginia House of Delegates.

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CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia faced many struggles with the overprescribing of opioids in recent years, but now it’s street drugs that are causing the most deaths. Specifically, fentanyl.

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MORGANTOWN, WV - Students and faculty across the state have stepped up to answer the needs of the nursing shortage during the COVID-19 pandemic, thanks to a three-point plan established by the West Virginia University School of Nursing.

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MORGANTOWN, WV - Despite the many challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, West Virginia University Health Sciences Center labs were largely able to stay open and functional, allowing critical research to continue.

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WASHINGTON, DC - President Joe Biden will roll out new measures Tuesday designed to expand coronavirus testing and reinforce hospitals against an anticipated wave of infections from the more contagious Omicron variant that could strain the nation’s health system once again.

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WASHINGTON, DC - The omicron variant now makes up a majority of COVID-19 cases in the United States, at 73.2 percent, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in updated figures released on Monday.

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CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia hospital leaders are warning that projections show the state approaching the highest number of covid-19 hospitalizations since the pandemic began.

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