Monongalia County school board members got to do something during their meeting Tuesday night that hasn’t always been possible over the past three years: They got to […]
Tag: COVID-19
Mon Schools: Each zero means a big leap to ‘new normal’
Donna Talerico has never been happier to see such low marks in Monongalia County’s school system. “It’s like night and day,” she said. The deputy superintendent of […]
DHHR drops 122 deaths from COVID list, reconciliation process shows they weren’t COVID-related
MORGANTOWN — The state’s total COVID death toll dropped over the weekend. After Friday’s COVID briefing from the governor’s office the number stood at 6,835. Tuesday’s figure […]
Ivermectin is useless against COVID
by Michael Hiltzik The final results are in, and they’re incontrovertible: Ivermectin, that nostrum assiduously promoted by anti-vaccine advocates and conspiracy-mongers, is utterly useless against COVID-19. That’s […]
Democrats need to break the COVID-funding stalemate. Now
by Jonathan Bernstein Democrats should be pushing hard this week — not next week! — to break the logjam preventing full funding for pandemic prevention and treatment. […]
MCHD focusing efforts, grant dollars on boosting vaccination rates
MORGANTOWN — Based on its internal data, the Monongalia County Health Department has participated in the administration of more than 88,000 doses of the various COVID-19 vaccinations […]
WVU receives $8.9M from feds for COVID-19 relief reimbursement
WASHINGTON, D.C. — West Virginia University and WVU Medicine’s City Hospital on Tuesday received a total of $8,929,787 for COVID-19 relief reimbursement. This funding, provided through the […]
Clay Marsh urges second COVID booster for older residents as FDA issues OK and CDC expected to follow soon
MORGANTOWN – COVID-19 Czar Clay Marsh passed along the news on Tuesday that the FDA has authorized a second booster dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines […]
Mon schools has another week of single-digit COVID cases: ‘They’re doing what they need to do, to keep safe’
Susan Haslebacher was an example of economy in motion last spring at Suncrest Middle School. It was the first day of a COVID vaccine clinic for students […]
Justice and team: COVID continues to wane but BA.2 is growing around world and across U.S.
MORGANTOWN — Friday was a bad news-good news day at the governor’s COVID briefing. The bad news was that the death toll reached 6,739, with Gov. Jim […]
