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12/16/2021 - The Hill by: Justine Coleman
WASHINGTON, DC - Nursing home residents who received their initial vaccination and a booster dose are 10 times less likely to contract COVID-19 than vaccinated residents who didn’t get their booster, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data.
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12/16/2021 - WTOV9 by: Jaime Baker
WHEELING, WV - It has officially been a year since shots started going into arms at Wheeling Hospital, though it hasn't exactly panned out the way doctors had hoped.
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12/16/2021 - NPR by: Rob Stein
WASHINGTON, DC - There's more mixed news about the power of vaccines to protect people against the omicron variant — this time about the Moderna vaccine.
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12/16/2021 - The Hill by: Mychael Schnell
WASHINGTON, DC - A new study says that while the COVID-19 omicron variant infects the human body 70 times faster than previous coronavirus strains, the infections appear to be less severe.
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12/16/2021 - NPR by: Selena Simmons-Duffin
WASHINGTON, DC - A new statewide mask mandate in California took effect Wednesday, which brings the total number of states with mask mandates to nearly 10.
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12/16/2021 - The Herald-Dispatch
CHARLESTON, WV - Active COVID-19 cases increased to 8,304 on Wednesday, 302 more than Tuesday, according to the state dashboard.
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12/16/2021 - WOWK by: Jessica Patterson
CHARLESTON, WV - December 14 marked one year since COVID-19 vaccines became available in the Mountain State.
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