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MORGANTOWN, WV - U.S. Sens. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va.,and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., on Monday announced $221,692 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse for West Virginia University, according to a press release.

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CHARLESTON, WV - Desperate for respirator masks to protect first responders on the front lines of the COVID-19 fight, West Virginia officials turned to a Boone County native.

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CHARLESTON, WV - CAMC began the next step toward allowing more adult visitors into their hospitals Monday.

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CHARLESTON, WV - Gov. Jim Justice announced churches in three counties are dealing with a coronavirus outbreak, with Greenbrier seeing 41 positive results, Ohio County has 18 and Boone County, nine.

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WASHINGTON, DC - Hospitals are using dramatic language in their effort to convince Congress to allow more time to repay loans meant to sustain them during the pandemic—arguing, for example, that 25% of hospitals' total payments will vanish once repayment starts.

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WASHINGTON, DC - House Democrats unveiled this week that their more than $1.5 trillion infrastructure proposal includes $30 billion for hospitals and other healthcare providers.

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CLARKSBURG, WV - The field of public health has three main functions: Protecting the public, preventing disease and promoting healthy behaviors. Local health departments are on the front lines of that work, yet have faced budget cuts that make this work, along with responding to a pandemic, more difficult, according to some department officials in the state.

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