MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University will not conduct back-to-campus COVID-19 testing for the spring semester. Assistant Vice President for Strategic Initiatives Erin Newmeyer confirmed Friday that the university is scaling back its testing and vaccination efforts and will play more of a ...
“We have collectively built a public health machine,” Dr. Lee Smith said Thursday to open his final report as executive director of the Monongalia County Health Department. And now, more than 20 months into the public health baptism by fire known as COVID-19, it’s time for some ...
At Thursday’s press conference, Gov. Jim Justice and his COVID advisors continued to press West Virginians to get vaccinated, and specifically to get booster shots ahead of an expected winter surge. With COVID czar Dr. Clay Marsh absent, it fell to Joint Interagency Task Force Director ...
WVU Today West Virginia University’s spring 2022 semester will begin Jan. 10, with many of the current COVID-19 campus health and safety protocols remaining in place as health officials monitor the emerging omicron variant. The COVID-19 protocols will be re-evaluated as additional ...
MORGANTOWN -- If you can’t do anything about the weather, Donna Talerico said, you can at least keep an eye on the winds of change. Talerico, the deputy superintendent of Monongalia County Schools, was talking both about Wednesday’s snow day – the first of the season – coupled with ...
MORGANTOWN -- Gov. Jim Justice continued to press home the importance of COVID vaccinations, especially booster shots, for all West Virginians during Tuesday’s press conference. The state marked another grim COVID milestone as deaths crested over 5,000. With West Virginians older ...