State officials announced Friday that a subvariant of the COVID-19 virus’ omicron variant has been found in West Virginia, specifically in Ohio and Berkeley counties. West Virginia’s coronavirus “czar” Dr. Clay Marsh, said the Mountain State joins about half the states in the country ...
WHEELING -- West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said Wednesday that he and governors from Virginia and Tennessee have been granted a telephone meeting Thursday with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services concerning their request for COVID vaccination mandates for healthcare workers in rural ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators are urging drugmaker Pfizer to apply for emergency authorization for a two-dose regimen of its COVID-19 vaccine for children 6 months to 5 years old while awaiting data on a three-dose course, aiming to clear the way for the shots as soon as late February, a ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said he's joining with his counterparts in Tennessee and Virginia to request a waiver for rural hospitals from a vaccine mandate for health care providers receiving Medicare or Medicaid funding. "It is putting an additional level of strain on our ...
Pfizer is enrolling healthy adults to test a reformulated COVID-19 vaccine that matches the hugely contagious omicron variant, to see how it compares with the original shots. Pfizer and its partner BioNTech announced the study on Tuesday. COVID-19 vaccine-makers have been updating their ...
The omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus has officially made its way into Ohio County. The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources COVID-19 dashboard is reporting two omicron cases in the county. Wheeling-Ohio County Health Administrator Howard Gamble said Tuesday those two ...
