NewsScan
A Daily Summary of Healthcare and Business News
12/23/2021 - WV Public Broadcasting by: June Leffler
CHARLESTON, WV - On this West Virginia Morning, hospitals are sounding the alarm on an influx of COVID-19 patients just before the holidays.
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12/23/2021 - Modern Healthcare by: Jessie Hellmann
WASHINGTON, DC - Next year could be a busy one for Congress, with potential action on several key issues affecting healthcare providers.
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12/23/2021 - Charleston Gazette-Mail
CHARLESTON, WV - A county emergency management director has been appointed to the West Virginia House of Delegates.
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12/22/2021 - The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. health officials say 2021 is shaping up to be even deadlier than last year.
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12/22/2021 - The New York Times by: Christina Jewett, Carl Zimmer and Rebecca Robbins
WASHINGTON, DC - The single remaining monoclonal antibody therapy effective against the variant is now in short supply in the U.S., imperiling an option that doctors and hospitals have relied on.
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12/22/2021 - WVNews
CHARLESTON, WV - The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources’ Health Statistics Center is launching a new Electronic Death Registration System that will allow deaths to be recorded and filed electronically.
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12/22/2021 - WVNews by: Michael Lemley
CHARLESTON, WV - “We’re dealing with a respiratory infection — the Omicron variant — of the likes that we have actually never seen in our lifetime, and it is going to be stunning how fast this thing spreads and how many people will get sick with this variant in West Virginia as well as in the country.
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