WV and National Disaster News - September 23, 2022

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​WEST VIRGINIA
 
COVID
WV Daily COVID Update & Stats for September 23, 2022 (WV DHHR) – there are currently 1,726 active COVID-19 cases statewide. There were NO deaths reported to DHHR over the last 24 hours, and the total deaths remain at 7,382 attributed to COVID-19.  

• Some West Virginia National Guard members to continue COVID assistance through Dec. 31  (The Exponent Telegram)
• WV returns $86 million in rental assistance funds to the federal government  (Mountain State Spotlight)

 
FLOOD RECOVERY

• Kanawha County officials preparing for FEMA meeting on flood damage  (WCHS-Radio)

 
OPIOID 

• Attorney General Morrisey announces more than $147 Million in settlements with Walmart, CVS Pharmacies  (The West Virginia Daily News)

NATIONAL NEWS

COVID & MONKEYPOX 

• 4 questions about COVID-19 vaccines and bivalent boosters, answered (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
• Heart damage in children from COVID vaccine? (Yahoo News)
• WHO warns ability to identify new Covid variants is diminishing as testing declines (CNBC)
• Doctors warn of possible fall, winter COVID-19 spikes due to low vaccination rates among kids (Fox 4 News)
• 4.4M Americans have received new omicron-targeted COVID-19 booster, CDC says (Fox 6 Now)
• CDC director dodges questions on whether COVID pandemic is over (FOX News)
• Monkeypox Virus 'Behaving Differently' (Newsweek)
• Officials Hopeful That Monkeypox Can Be Eliminated in the U.S. (The New York Times)
• Health Beat: Monkeypox: Stopping the spread (WFMZ)

WEATHER

• FEMA administrator to travel to Alaska as state rushes to address storm damages (Anchorage Daily News), related news: Associated Press
• Major hurricane threat looms for the US next week as Tropical Depression 9 takes shape
• (AccuWeather)
• Tropical Depression Nine Forms In Caribbean, Florida Hurricane Threat Possible (The Weather Channel)
• Families without flood insurance struggle to rebuild homes (NBC News)
• Pfluger, Veasey lead bipartisan letter on federal disaster relief for small communities (Odessa American Online – Texas)

Hurricane Fiona

• Biden announces feds will pay 100% of Puerto Rico's Fiona recovery efforts (NY Daily News) - PBS,  NBC News
• Hurricane Fiona roars by Bermuda, on route to Canada (Associated Press)
• President Biden vows the US won't walk away from storm-struck Puerto Rico (Capital Gazette)
• FEMA Officer describes Puerto Rico's recovery from Fiona so far (WDIY)
• New Jersey state troopers join Puerto Rico hurricane recovery efforts (WHYY)
• Hurricane Fiona could be 'most intense storm on record' to slam into Atlantic Canada (AccuWeather)

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