WV and National Disaster News - December 2, 2021

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WEST VIRGINIA

Government

WV Daily COVID Update & Stats for December 2, 2021 (WV DHHR) - there have been 50 deaths reported since the last report (yesterday,12/1/21) with a total of 4,945 deaths attributed to COVID-19. Click here for details.

Local

• Gamble: Vaccines Remain Best Bet Against All Variants of COVID-19 (The Intelligencer/Wheeling News-Register)
• COVID Vaccine clinic in elementary school has students proudly showing off their bandaids (WTRF-TV)
• State lifts hold on COVID vaccines at Mercer County Health Department (The Bluefield Daily Telegraph)
• Active COVID-19 cases increase in WV (MetroNews-Radio)
• Kanawha adds three COVID-19-related deaths; active cases increase by 138 (WCHS-TV)
• COVID claims four more Mid-Ohio Valley residents (The Parkersburg News and Sentinel)
• Gorge fire poses a threat to historic Nuttallburg (MetroNews-Radio)
• Fire at New River Gorge affects 150 acres; blaze 50% contained (WCHS-TV)

national

COVID

• Live updates: Company says drug seems effective with omicron (Associated Press)
• Start your day here: omicron in the U.S (NPR)
• Biden to Unveil Plan to Blunt Potential COVID Surge this Winter (Maryland Matters)
• Two Years Into Covid-19 And What Are The Real Omicron Surprises? (Forbes)
• Thousands of COVID vaccine doses wasted in NY (Fox News)
• Biden will outline new steps to combat Covid through winter months (CNN)

WEATHER

• After Hurricane Ida destroyed 1 in 4 Grand Isle buildings, demolition is on 'path to recovery' (Nola.com)
• Buildings Burn, Evacuations Ordered in Wildfires Amid Windy, Dry Conditions in Montana (The Weather Channel)