West Virginia’s COVID statistics are improving nearly every day. DHHR figures show the number of active COVID cases has steadily declined — from over 20,000 in late […]
Tag: COVID-19
COVID at a single-digit low in Mon schools
Positive cases of COVID in Monongalia County schools were at their lowest numbers last week since the early days of the pandemic two years ago. The district […]
The death toll from conservative politicization of the pandemic
With light apparently at the end of the coronavirus tunnel, this is a good time to soberly assess how America handled the pandemic and can better handle […]
I nearly died from COVID. Now I’m letting go of the fear
by David Lat Two years ago, I was in a hospital bed on the 15th floor of NYU Langone hospital in Manhattan, dying of COVID-19. A previously […]
Justice marks 2-year anniversary of state’s first COVID case, and lowest case number since July 4, 2020
MORGANTOWN — Thursday marked the two-year anniversary of West Virginia’s first COVID-19 cases. Gov. Jim Justice noted the occasion during his Friday COVID briefing with a brief […]
Mon Schools and COVID: ‘I think we’re in a pretty good place right now’
Mon’s students on Tuesday were in the midst of a mini-spring break. They’ll go back Thursday and then enjoy another round of days off next month around […]
Two years of pandemic and counting
by Robin Abcarian Has it really been two years since life as we knew it came to a screeching halt? In the third week of March 2020, […]
Area hospitals adjust operations
BY MIKE NOLTING Like the rest of the state, hospitalizations are dropping at both major hospitals in the Morgantown area. WVU Medicine President and CEO Albert Wright […]
What do you do when ‘normal’ seems surreal?
Pandemic. Global warming. Racial reckoning. Cold war. World war. Potential nuclear Armageddon. It’s as if the most harrowing and tumultuous events of the 20th century have been […]
Going to be hard for Justice to sue Kabler when Kabler is right
Of the 24 minutes Gov. Jim Justice spoke during his COVID briefing Monday, before taking questions from the press, he dedicated at least 10 minutes to complaining […]
