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The number of new cases in its region dropped by about 40% over the past two weeks. The hospital system is treating 324 COVID-19 patients. While that’s still a troubling number, it’s down from a high of 413 a few weeks ago.
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Some localities in the Central Virginia health District are hitting positivity rates of 25% and daily case averages that are the highest since the start of the pandemic.
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Two health care systems that serve parts of western Virginia are postponing elective and non-emergency surgeries as more COVID-19 patients come to their hospitals.
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The hospital system serving southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee is preparing for a surge of COVID-19 patients that may top last winter’s…
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COVID-19 hospitalizations at the health system that serves portions of southwest Virginia and northeast Tennessee have nearly tripled in one week. And…
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Virginia’s surge of COVID-19 infections is still growing. Case numbers and hospitalizations have also continued to rise.The health department reported…
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Coal was once king of the economy in Appalachia, but with climate change and the advent of the pandemic, it’s a new day. And that has leaders in the…
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Virginia’s Redistricting Commission chose a new member Monday, leaving the commission without a member from Southwest Virginia.Virginia Trost-Thornton was…
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As Virginia’s redistricting commission prepares for its first public hearings, one the commission’s most pressing issues is replacing one of its members…
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350 years ago, Thomas Batts and Robert Fallam became the first European explorers to reach southwest Virginia.They had a number of different objectives on…