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GRAFTON, WV - Grafton City Hospital is committed to making our hospitals and facilities safer for every patient, visitor, and staff member.

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MORGANTOWN, WV - WVU Medicine and Mon Health System will require all employees to receive COVID-19 vaccines.

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CHARLESTON, WV - State and national supporters of lowering the costs of expensive prescription drugs and expanding health insurance are urging West Virginians to get on the bus.

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WASHINGTON, DC - People infected with COVID-19 were captured in a photo this week lying on the floor in pain while waiting for antibody infusions at a treatment site set up inside the library in Jacksonville, Florida.

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WASHINGTON, DC - Hospitals and lawmakers in states gripped by the Delta variant are offering nurses tens of thousands of dollars in signing bonuses, rewriting job descriptions so paramedics can care for patients and pleading for federal help to beef up their crisis-fatigued health care workforces.

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WASHINGTON, DC - Employees at Abbott Laboratories, which makes rapid COVID-19 tests, were instructed in June and July to start destroying BinaxNOW test materials amid declining sales, The New York Times reported.

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WASHINGTON, DC - When Dr. Anthony Fauci spoke recently at a White House briefing about the need for COVID-19 booster shots, buried in his slideshow of charts and data points was a little-noticed scientific paper that offers evidence for a reliable way to predict how much protection a COVID-19 vaccine offers.

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