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10/26/2021 - Charleston Gazette-Mail
CHARLESTON, WV - Gov. Jim Justice on Friday signed 40 bills that the Legislature passed during an eight-day special session earlier this month.
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10/25/2021 - The Herald-Dispatch by: Phil Kabler
CHARLESTON, WV - While West Virginia COVID-19 hospitalizations have been trending down from a peak of 1,012 on Sept. 24, Dr. Clay Marsh on Friday raised concerns that hospitalizations of fully vaccinated people are ticking up, accounting for 24% of the current 686 patients.
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10/25/2021 - The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, DC - Federal health regulators said late Friday that kid-size doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine appear highly effective at preventing symptomatic infections in elementary school children and caused no unexpected safety issues, as the U.S. weighs beginning vaccinations in youngsters.
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10/25/2021 - WVNews
CHARLESTON, WV - State officials spoke during Gov. Jim Justice's COVID-19 press briefing Friday regarding the authorization of booster doses for those who have received the Moderna and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
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10/25/2021 - The Intelligencer by: Shelly Hanson
WHEELING, WV - Employees throughout WVU Medicine — including several local hospitals in the system — are looking at a delay on the system’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.
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10/25/2021 - MetroNews
CHARLESTON, WV - Gov. Jim Justice on Friday signed legislation allowing exemptions for coronavirus vaccinations, but the law will not go into effect until January.
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10/25/2021 - NPR by: Yuki Noguchi
WASHINGTON, DC - Struggle is nothing new to Foxx Whitford.
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