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Mon Health plans day to remember

Newsroom@DominionPost.com This week marks one year since Mon Health System admitted its first patient at Mon Health Medical Center with COVID-19.  On Thursday, the hospital system will observe a moment of silence and a day of remembrance to reflect on the past year, mourn the lives ...

Name confusion leads to vaccine cancellations

MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia University and WVU Medicine sound similar, but they are two separate entities. And that caused a lot of confusion with people who wanted to register to receive the COVID-19 vaccine last week. On March 12, WVU sent an email saying it was gauging interest from ...

Lessons from the Pandemic

WVU Today  Under the quiet surface of near-stilled campuses over the past year, West Virginia University researchers, faculty and administrators have scrambled to learn more about COVID-19 and mitigate its spread, calculated how to teach online and hybrid classes and figured out how ...

WVU alum talks vaccine development

There are Mountaineers all over the world. Including James Shirey, who has worked for pharmaceutical giant Pfizer since 1991. In October 2019 he was named vice-president, global sterile injectables quality. He leads 3,200 people at 12 locations around the world. Wednesday evening, he ...