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12/10/2021 - Modern Healthcare by: Jessie Hellmann
WASHINGTON, DC - The Senate on Thursday evening voted 59-34 to avert looming Medicare cuts to providers, sending the legislation to President Biden's desk for signature.
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12/10/2021 - WCHS by: Tyler Bennett
CHARLESTON, WV - Thomas Memorial Hospital will be celebrating its 75th anniversary on Thursday after opening its doors for the first time on Dec. 9, 1946.
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12/09/2021 - The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, DC - Even as the U.S. closes in on a milestone of 200 million people fully vaccinated against COVID-19, cases and hospitalizations are spiking again, including in highly inoculated corners of the country like New England.
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12/09/2021 - The Hill by: Monique Beals
WASHINGTON, DC - The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in a new interview that reported cases of the new omicron variant in the U.S. have been relatively mild.
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12/09/2021 - WOWK
WASHINGTON, DC - A prominent study from the UK looking at the effects of mixing COVID-19 vaccines found that participants saw a better immune response when they received a different second dose weeks after their first.
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12/09/2021 - WOWK by: Mark Curtis
CHARLESTON, WV - It’s official — West Virginia is now experiencing another COVID-19 surge.
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12/09/2021 - The Register-Herald
WASHINGTON, DC - Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said President Joe Biden “went back on his word” when he ordered a vaccine mandate for private businesses, and she joined several of her GOP colleagues Wednesday afternoon urging passage of a Congressional Review Act (CRA) to stop it.
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