Public dashboard allows for tracking of COVID-19 As part of its $4 million effort to test all students, faculty and employees before the fall semester begins Aug. […]
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Free screening for COVID-19 in Fairmont
FAIRMONT – How do you box out COVID-19? A basketball player for the WVU Mountaineers had a three-point answer Thursday in Fairmont. “Wear a mask,” Jalen Bridges […]
Change of Plans
WVU pushes back start date; announces ‘phased return’ amid student testing efforts West Virginia University said Monday afternoon it will employ a phased return to its Morgantown […]
Justice, DHHR address questions of COVID test results delays, need to self-quarantine while waiting
MORGANTOWN — Monongalia County’s active COVID-19 caseload continues to trend downward, with 177 cases Monday morning, Gov. Jim Justice said Monday. Kanawha County remains the state’s highest, […]
Smith : Timing critical to testing
Most become positive 5-7 days following exposure How helpful is a COVID-19 test? It depends. “A lot of people have far more faith in a test than […]
3 test positive in Preston County
KINGWOOD — Only three of the 730 people tested for COVID-19 July 10-11 in Preston County tested positive for the virus. Preston County Health Department Administrator V.J. […]
COVID Testing at Coliseum
Site open through Saturday only to WVU employees West Virginia University on Monday began testing 7,200 employees for COVID-19 who are expected to be on the Morgantown […]
Neuroscience institute develops COVID-19 predictor
WVU Medicine WVU Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute (RNI) researchers have developed new tools, including the forecasting of temperature and a “Health Index,” to warn users of the onset […]
More research needed on virus
Ayne Amjad, West Virginia’s state medical officer, said she doesn’t believe COVID-19 is a particularly deadly illness. What is deadly, she continued, is our inability to fully […]
Tips for helping contact tracers
A lot has happened since the last health department column appeared in these pages two weeks ago. Then, it was reported that the number of positive COVID-19 […]
