BY CARRIE HODOUSEK CHARLESTON — State coronavirus czar Dr. Clay Marsh says it’s only a matter of time before the new BA.5 subvariant of COVID-19 appears in […]
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Death toll continues to rise; officials keeping an eye on Delta Plus variant
Gov. Jim Justice opened his Wednesday briefing with the grim task of reading out 85 more COVID-19 deaths in West Virginia. The total dead is now 4,219, […]
Postcast 69 – April 30, 2021
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Drive-thru Clinic for Vax
Newsroom@DominionPost.com Pantry Plus More and Monongalia County Health Department partnered to host a drive-thru vaccine clinic during the nonprofit’s regular Saturday food distribution for students and their […]
COVID variants on the rise regionally
Newsroom@DominionPost.com As of Friday, Monongalia County Health Department was following nearly 200 COVID-19 variants of concern, including more than 32 cases of the United Kingdom variant [B.1.1.7], […]
Justice: South African variant of virus now in West Virginia
MORGANTOWN — Along with the United Kingdom and California COVID-19 variants, a strain originating in South Africa has made its way into West Virginia. “We just found […]
Private support aids WVU in study of COVID-19 variants
WVU Today Private philanthropic support is driving timely COVID-19 research by West Virginia University — along with partners at Marshall University and the West Virginia Department of […]
How WVU, Marshall and the state detect new variants
WVU Today Picture viral RNA as a single component you can break into one million pieces. Now imagine reassembling those pieces, literally like a jigsaw puzzle. If […]
MCHD epidemiologists tracking COVID variants
MORGANTOWN — There are variant strains of COVID-19 in Monongalia County. That’s the bad news, we know. The good news? The epidemiologists at the Monongalia County Health […]
‘No COVID-19 is good COVID-19’
WVU Today West Virginia University scientists knew it was coming. When health officials confirmed the first three cases of a COVID-19 variant in West Virginia late Friday, […]
