MORGANTOWN — West Virginia is plowing ahead on COVID-19 vaccinations as the death toll continues to climb. Gov. Jim Justice opened Wednesday’s briefing with the bad news: 60 more people […]
Healthcare
COVID vaccine rolls out in state as surge numbers climb higher
Health care workers at hospitals and nursing homes throughout the Morgantown area began receiving COVID-19 vaccinations Tuesday while the number of deaths in West Virginia associated with COVID-19 rose above […]
Bonnie’s Bus parked until 2021 because of COVID-19
KINGWOOD — A spike in the number of confirmed COVID cases has led to the cancellation of a visit by Bonnie’s Bus. The 45-foot, state-of-the-art mobile mammography vehicle was previously […]
Health care workers set to get first vaccine doses today
The first COVID-19 vaccines made it to Morgantown and the rest of the state Monday morning, and local health care workers should start being inoculated today. Todd Karpinski, Pharm.D, WVU […]
Manchin, Collins and bipartisan group of lawmakers unveil their COVID emergency relief bills
MORGANTOWN — Sens. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., and Susan Collins, R-Maine, led a bipartisan group of senators and representatives assembled Monday to unveil their $908 billion emergency COVID-19 relief bills. The […]
As COVID vaccine rolls out, Justice targets higher ed students for weekly testing
MORGANTOWN — As the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine began to roll out early Monday, Gov. Jim Justice announced a new initiative to try to curb the ongoing surge: […]
Pandemic causing ‘quiet stress’
MORGANTOWN — One in five West Virginia residents have reportedly suffered from “quiet stress” this year, according to a survey conducted by American Addiction Centers. American Addiction Centers, a provider […]
QRT impacts community via training
Naloxone reverses effects of opioid overdose, saves lives Newsroom@DominionPost.com Members of the Monongalia County Quick Response Team have had a direct impact in providing the community with life-saving training and […]
School of Public Health mask study
83.9% of those on WVU campus wore coverings WVU Today The West Virginia University School of Public Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention concluded their mask-observation study, with […]
Hospital helps family access gene therapy
WVU Medicine When Brittany and Chris Nix, of Fort Gay, had their son, Oliver, they didn’t expect him to be born with a disease that would prevent him from being […]
