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Health agencies to receive $82.8M

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-WV, announced Monday that $82,842,125 in funding from the most recent COVID-19 relief package will be used to support health centers across West Virginia -- including two in the Monongalia-Preston area. The American Rescue plan will provide at minimum $4 million ...

COVID-19 cases continue to climb in state

It has been a year since West Virginia had its first death related to COVID-19, and Gov. Jim Justice said Monday at his regular press briefing the state has had 378 new cases since Friday, bringing the number of active cases to 6,252. There have also been 10 new virus-related deaths since ...

Gift helps COVID-19 patients communicate

Newsroom@DominionPost.com   After experiencing the heartbreaking loss of their father, a Buckhannon family  provided the  gift of communication to COVID-19 patients at Mon Health Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital in Weston and Mon Health Medical Center in ...

A Different Kind of Science

 WVU Today  As West Virginians receive the COVID-19 vaccine at record rates, citizens credit the power of medical science for making that shot in the arm possible. But there’s a different kind of science that is driving a critical, yet less recognized role in the state’s ...

Remember COVID-19 is still here

We get it. The days are getting warmer, and many people want to get back to at least a semblance of normalcy. I’m one of them. I was looking forward to spring last year, and instead, I found myself shut up in my house when I wasn’t performing job duties that had become very stressful ...

How WVU, Marshall and the state detect new variants

WVU Today Picture viral RNA as a single component  you can break into one million pieces. Now imagine reassembling those pieces, literally like a jigsaw puzzle. If there’s a chipped corner or if a piece won’t fit  as it should, consider that a virus mutation or ...