West Virginia University said Wednesday students at its three campuses will begin on-site fall classes Aug. 19. All faculty, staff and students will be required to complete a COVID-19 education course before Aug. 11, the university said. The university has been closed to the public ...
MORGANTOWN -- The medical director of Sundale Long-Term Care and Rehabilitation in Morgantown received a $30,000 grant from the West Virginia Clinical and Translational Science Institute to study how long former COVID-19 patients may be immune to the virus. Beginning in early August, funds ...
In cities across the nation, thousands continue to protest the police killing in Minneapolis of George Floyd. Floyd, an unarmed 46-year-old black man, died Monday after a white police officer pressed down on his neck for more than eight minutes. He was recorded on video pleading for air ...
Is there a difference between dying of COVID-19 and dying with COVID-19?That was a topic of conversation during a recent Monongalia County Board of Health meeting.There have been five deaths attributed to COVID-19 in Monongalia County — all occurring between April 3 and May 2 and claiming victims between the ages of 76 and 100 years old.Monongalia County Health Department Executive Director Lee Smith said all five had some variation of Alzheimer’s disease. Three were receiving hospice, or end of life, care.“The 100-year-old person who died tested positive, but was asymptomatic,” ...
TUNNELTON — The friends and family of Philip “Bucky” Barlow gathered Saturday to remember the good person he was and pray for justice in his murder one year ago.“Justice for Bucky,” has become a slogan for those who knew and loved him, and they won’t let anyone forget him.But Saturday was about more than that, said Michele Bucklew, Barlow’s niece.“Today I hope that we take away the fond memories,” she said before the gathering. “I hope everybody gets to share stories, things that he did or that they did with him.”“He was an awesome uncle,” Bucklew said. They ...
Life is slowly returning to normal for Dr. Carl Shrader, the medical director of Sundale Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care, as well as its residents and staff. For almost three months, Shrader, who is also a WVU Medicine physician, was consumed with trying to figure out how COVID-19 works ...
