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WHEELING, WV - As is the national trend, numbers are back on the rise at Wheeling Hospital when it comes to hospitalizations because of the coronavirus.

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MARTINSBURG, WV - Staff and space are strained at Berkeley and Jefferson Medical Centers as COVID-19 patients seek treatment.

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CHARLESTON, WV - Omicron has been identified in West Virginia now, the state’s top pandemic adviser announced today.

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WASHINGTON, DC - A federal judge rejected OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement of thousands of lawsuits over the opioid epidemic Thursday because of a provision that would protect members of the Sackler family from facing litigation of their own.

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WASHINGTON, DC - The federal government should offer incentives to encourage drugmakers to manufacture critical medicines and active pharmaceutical ingredients, a coalition of provider organizations urge in a set of policy recommendations issued Thursday.

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CHARLESTON, WV - The finance board of the Public Employees Insurance Agency approved a plan for next fiscal year that again has no rate increase for insured state workers.

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WASHINGTON, DC - Nursing home residents who received their initial vaccination and a booster dose are 10 times less likely to contract COVID-19 than vaccinated residents who didn’t get their booster, according to new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data.

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