WV and National Disaster News - June 27, 2022

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WEST VIRGINIA

COVID
WV Daily COVID Update and Stats for June 27, 2022 (WV DHHR) – There are currently 2,060 active COVID-19 cases statewide. There have been NO DEATHS reported since the last report (6/24/2022), with a total of 7,056 deaths attributed to COVID-19.
 
CYBERSECURITY

• ​Hospitals, health care providers forced to balance expanded virtual services and cybersecurity risk mitigation  (The Exponent Telegram)

WEATHER

• Cabell assess to have meetings for property owners affected by flooding (Herald-Dispatch Huntington)
• Flood Victim's Son Still Gets Emotional Talking About His Parents   (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)
• Environmental, labor groups join forces to fight climate change  (The Register-Herald)

OTHER

• NTSB: West Virginia helicopter crashed on last flight of day  (The Associated Press)
• Morgantown firefighters plea for action as new personnel rules loom  (MetroNews-Radio)
• EMS services could see more relief as state seeks to increase reimbursement rates (The Charleston Gazette-Mail)
• Clendenin couple opens new brewery 6 years after historic flood  (MetroNews-Radio)

COVID

• Pfizer, BioNTech say updated vaccines offer 'substantially higher immune response' against omicron (The Hill)
• Minnesota among first states to get federally backed COVID 'test-to-treat' sites (Minnesota Public Radio)

• Heavy rain, thunderstorms expected along the East Coast on Monday (Fox Weather)
• Brewing tropical system to take aim at Caribbean (AccuWeather), related news: The Weather Channel  
• NJ wildfire erupts in Brendon T. Byrne State Forest in Manchester and Woodland (Asbury Park Press)
• Swamps Can Protect Against Climate Change, If We Only Let Them (New Yorker)
• FEMA to uninsured Montanans: 'Take responsibility for your own disaster recovery' (KTVH News – Montana)
• Louisiana's insurance market is collapsing, just in time for hurricane season (Grist)

 
OTHER

• Infrastructural Cris​is in Schools Is Harming Student Health and Learning (Truthout)
• OIG Tells FEMA to Improve Management of Hazard Mitigation Grant Program Property Acquisitions (Homeland Security Today)​