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BRIDGEPORT, WV - WVU Medicine Children’s and WVU Medicine United Hospital Center (UHC) have entered into a program affiliation to help serve the children of Harrison County and the surrounding region.

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LONDON, UK - Drugmaker Pfizer Inc. has signed a deal with a U.N.-backed group to allow other manufacturers to make its experimental COVID-19 pill, a move that could make the treatment available to more than half of the world’s population.

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CHARLESTON, WV - James Hoyer, director of the state’s Joint Interagency Task Force, which coordinates the state’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts, on Monday said the state’s rate of COVID transmission continues to rise.

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MORGANTOWN, WV - U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito and the Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health (NIDA), Dr. Nora Volkow, visited West Virginia University’s (WVU) Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) along with Director Dr. Ali Rezai today.

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CHARLESTON, WV - Lessons learned by the Legislature during the 2020 election and the 2021 redistricting process are translating to legislation for 2022.

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MORGANTOWN, WV - The Monongalia Co. Health Department (MCHD) held a third “Pediatric Pfizer Vaccine Clinic” at the WVU Rec Center on Friday afternoon, Nov. 12.

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MORGANTOWN, WV - According to research from West Virginia University, COVID-19 patients living in rural areas who end up in an intensive care unit face a greater risk of dying, impacting population health.

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