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COVID-19 booster shot available for high-risk, elderly individuals

MORGANTOWN — COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are available to select populations across the United States, and several locations in the Morgantown and surrounding area are available to distribute it to those eligible. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the ...

Carrier leaves MCHD for private practice, Kassar ‘next dentist up’

“I think his biggest challenge was trying to convince people that they could get top-of-the-line dental service at the health department,” Monongalia County Health Officer Dr. Lee Smith said. “He was very much up to that challenge.” Smith’s comments were in regard to the ...

MCHD will not offer monoclonal antibody infusions

MORGANTOWN — The Monongalia County Health Department does not intend to administer monoclonal antibody infusions. The treatment, which has emergency-use authorization from the FDA, is a 250 ml intravenous infusion of lab-created proteins intended to boost the immune system of recipients ...