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Indiana community surprises longtime pizza deliveryman with a new car
Peters has worked at a Pizza Hut in Tipton for 31 years, and Tanner Langley, 28, told
Good Morning America he s the only pizza deliveryman he s ever known. The town of Tipton calls him Mr. Smiley, Langley said. He makes that impact on everybody and he s a very kindhearted individual.
During a recent delivery, Peters mentioned to Langley that his 28-year-old car was having issues. Langley wanted to do something, so he started a fundraiser to help Peters buy a new car. Within days of launching a GoFundMe, he received more than $18,000 in donations â well above the $12,000 goal.
3 reasons West Virginia s COVID-19 vaccination effort is working so well
West Virginia is doing better than probably any other state in vaccinating its population against COVID-19. About 9 percent of West Virginians have already gotten their first dose, better than any state but Alaska, and West Virginia is No. 1 in giving out second doses,
The New York Times reports. West Virginia has used 83 percent of the doses allocated to the state, by far the highest percentage.
Part of West Virginia s success is its size: With 1.8 million residents, its population is smaller than several U.S. cities. But the state s population is also older and less healthy than average. People are dying every day, Albert Wright Jr., CEO of WVU Medicine, the state s largest health-care provider, told the
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By Charles Boothe |
Bluefield Daily Telegraph Jan 1, 2021
Princeton Community Hospital, is pictured above in this 2019 file photo. BDT file photo
PRINCETON â Princeton Community Hospital is on the threshold of a COVID-19 crisis in having the capacity to provide enough beds and staff to treat in-patients and is urging anyone with a less acute illness to go to a clinic or MedExpress and not the emergency room.
Rose Morgan, Vice President of Patient Care Services at PCH, said Tuesday the hospital now has 50 COVID-19 patients and a total of 125 in-patients, some of whom are waiting in the ER for a bed.