by Martin Schram Outside, millions of desperate people have been standing for hours in lines stretching around the corners of America’s city streets and suburban strip malls. […]
Tag: COVID-19
Out with the bad air: Mon Schools discusses COVID guidance in its buildings for new year
MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County’s school district wants to clear the air for 2022. Or at least help students and teachers coexist with it better during these pandemic […]
Editorial Encore: A thank-you note for the front line
EDITOR’S NOTE: This editorial originally ran March 23, 2020. While parts of our lives have reached a “new normal,” front-line workers continue to bear the brunt of […]
Senior Mons hosts COVID vaccine, booster clinic today
Newsroom@DominionPost.com COVID- 19 is not going away any time soon. Medical professionals are stressing the importance of continuing to protect yourself and your loved ones. One way […]
The bee is back: County spelling bee (in abbreviated form) will be Jan. 5
MORGANTOWN — Lockdown. L-O-C-K-D-O-W-N, lockdown. Which is what won’t be happening next month for the annual Monongalia County Schools Spelling Bee. After COVID-19 derailed it last year, […]
COVID advisors raise the alarm for omicron’s impact on youth
Governor Jim Justice and his pandemic advisors raised early alarms of the impact an impending omicron variant surge could have on West Virginians, particularly if younger citizens […]
Attention, Biden: 500M free COVID tests aren’t enough
When Joe Biden took over as president, millions of Americans were relieved to finally have a leader who could be counted on to consistently shepherd the federal […]
A suggestion for vaccine outreach
In mid-December, The Dominion Post reported the Monongalia County Health Department was awarded a $1 million Health Resources & Services Administration grant, which it will then be […]
Burned-out health care workers and ‘muffin rage’
by Jillian Horton On a dreary morning more than 20 years ago, I was a resident in internal medicine putting in 80-hour workweeks for what amounted to […]
Endemic COVID should be celebrated
by Robert Pearl Most leading immunologists predict COVID-19 will someday become an endemic, a persistent but manageable threat on par with seasonal flu, conceivably by the end […]
