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FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2020 file photo, prepared COVID-19 Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine syringes are seen at Edward Hospital in Naperville, Ill. The U.S. government is negotiating with Pfizer to acquire tens millions of additional vaccine doses in exchange for helping the pharmaceutical giant gain better access to manufacturing supplies. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File)
CHARLESTON West Virginia will receive a higher allotment of vaccine through the Federal Pharmacy Program, according to Gov. Jim Justice.
The state will receive 7,300 doses, higher than the 5,800 announced on Monday through the federal program with Walgreens for older residents and essential workers, Justice said Wednesday. One hundred doses of the vaccine will be distributed to each of 53 Walgreens in the state, he said.
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A worker holds a bottle of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, as the mass public vaccination program gets underway, at the NHS Louisa Jordan Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, Tuesday Dec. 8, 2020. The United Kingdom is beginning its vaccination campaign to inoculate people against the COVID-19 virus. (Jeff J Mitchell/Pool via AP)
Residents contacted by someone in the coming weeks telling them their COVID-19 vaccine is ready for them must pay close attention to who is doing the contacting.
Gov. Jim Justice announced Tuesday that West Virginia will partner with Walgreens as part of the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program, which makes another nearly 6,000 doses of vaccine available to qualifying West Virginians each week. The state government will send the pharmacy chain names from its Everbridge scheduling system to vaccinate.
The Marshall County Health Department reported on Sunday night the county’s 60th COVID-19-related death since the start of the pandemic. The department annou
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Registered Nurse Lynda Turner, left, prepares to administer a COVID-19 vaccine to Jacqyelyn MClellan of Huntington as health care workers with the Cabell County EMS and Cabell-Huntington Health Department administer vaccines during a drive-thru clinic on Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021, outside of the St. Mary s School of Nursing in Huntington, WVa. (Sholten Singer/The Herald-Dispatch via AP)
Many people who have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine, especially those who were inoculated early in the process, are wondering how they’ll receive the second dose to be fully protected.
At least in Ohio County, that will depend on how and where a person got that first dose, according to the county health administrator.
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This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)
The number of counties in red, the highest-risk category on the state’s COVID alert map, continued to fall Wednesday, dipping into single digits.
On Wednesday’s Department of Health and Human Resources map, only nine counties were in red, one being Marshall County. COVID-19 metrics have continued showing signs of improvement, including in the Northern Panhandle.