WVU Medicine WVU Medicine will begin offering the Pfizer-BioNTech pediatric COVID-19 vaccine to children ages 5-11 Monday. Vaccine appointments will be available on Monday and daily thereafter at the Pediatrics Clinics at WVU Medicine Cheat Lake Physicians, the WVU Medicine outpatient ...
MORGANTOWN – Attorney General Patrick Morrisey announced Friday he has joined with six other states to petition a federal appeals court to stay and to review the OSHA vaccine mandate rule issued Thursday. The rule applies to employers with 100 or more employees and has a Jan. 4 deadline ...
MORGANTOWN – COVID-19 Czar Clay Marsh and Joint Interagency Task Force Director Gen. James Hoyer on Friday again urged West Virginians to get their vaccine boosters. Marsh said that as the weather gets colder and people are staying more inside – where the virus spreads more easily – ...
The COVID vaccine could be going into the arms of Monongalia County’s youngest students as early as Nov. 15, officials from the school district said. “Well, right now, we’re still tentative on the exact date,” Deputy Schools Superintendent Donna Talerico said, “but the idea is to ...
MORGANTOWN – The CDC on Tuesday approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for children ages 5-11 and Gov. Jim Justice celebrated the news during his Wednesday briefing with an on-air vaccination. Dr. Jessica McColley, with Cabin Creek Health Systems, appeared with her son, Jacob Thomas, 7. ...
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice acknowledged on Monday that the end of COVID-19 isn't on the horizon. “I really don't believe it's going away,” he said. For the foreseeable future, he said, people may need to keep getting vaccine boosters every six months. “If that's the worst that ...