WV and National Disaster News - January 29, 2021

1/29/2021

West Virginia

· West Virginia Teachers Will Now Have To Register For Vaccine On DHHR Website (WTRF)

· West Virginia’s rural areas feeling pinch of vaccine distribution (Parkersburg News and Sentinel)

· West Virginia holds vaccination clinic at fairgrounds (WDBJ)

· How Israel and West Virginia succeeded with vaccine rollout – for really different reasons (Forward)

· West Virginia Passes 175,000 First Doses, 50,000 Full COVID-19 Vaccines (Wheeling News-Register)

· WV DHHR confirms 905 new COVID-19 cases, 23 additional deaths as death toll surpasses 2,000 (WBOY)

· W.Va. COVID-19 death toll tops 2,000 Friday with 23 more deaths (WCHS)

· Forty-four W.Va. counties in red or orange on county alert map posted Friday (WCHS)

National News

· Virus variant from South Africa detected in US for 1st time (AP News)

· Monstrous California storm triggers mudslides, 4 feet of snow in 24 hours (AccuWeather)

· 'Buckle up!' Big snowstorm on the way for Midwest, Northeast (AccuWeather)

· FEMA requests help from Pentagon to administer COVID vaccine: DoD (Fox News)

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