MORGANTOWN — Here is a sampling of bills introduced on Monday, Jan. 16. Local sponsors and co-sponsors, if any, are noted. HB 2009, to clarify the authority and obligations of the governor and Legislature relating to declared states of preparedness and emergencies. HB 2559, to ...
MORGANTOWN – Active COVID cases took a steady rise from the end of April to mid-May, soaring from 809 on April 30 to 2,570 on May 21. Since then the number has dipped a bit, to 2,117 Thurs morning. So vaccines and boosters occupied a portion of Gov. Jim Justice's Thursday briefing. The ...
Vaccine education efforts by Governor Jim Justice’s office are not going unheard. During the governor’s weekly press conference on Friday, Major General James Hoyer with the West Virginia COVID Response Joint Interagency Task Force, announced that from April 6-May 6, 6,481 West ...
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice on Thursday celebrated the CDC following the lead of the FDA decision earlier this week to allow second COVID boosters for certain people. The CDC joined the FDA to authorize a second booster dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for people age 50 and up ...
MORGANTOWN – COVID-19 Czar Clay Marsh passed along the news on Tuesday that the FDA has authorized a second booster dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for people age 50 and up who are at least four months past their prior dose of any authorized vaccine. The CDC's Advisory Committee ...
MORGANTOWN — Friday was a bad news-good news day at the governor's COVID briefing. The bad news was that the death toll reached 6,739, with Gov. Jim Justice announcing 88 deaths since his Monday briefing (47 of those being reconciliations of prior deaths just reaching the state ...