FAIRMONT — Lloyd White has a prescription to stop COVID. Just keep following the standard protocols, the director of the Marion County Health Department said Wednesday. That’s in response to an ongoing mini-spike of cases at Rivesville Elementary-Middle School. From last week ...
by Mia Ives-Rublee In his recent article in The Atlantic, Ed Yong posed a poignant question: “What does society owe immunocompromised people?” During the massive surge in COVID cases in the fall and winter of 2020, I remember seeing commercial after commercial proclaiming that ...
Happy Mother’s Day! Motherhood: it’s one of the most important jobs that has ever existed. We all know that being a good mom is challenging, but being a good mother through the unprecedented times of COVID-19 has proven to be much more than just a labor of love: It’s been learning ...
by Joshua Pederson Twenty-five months into the pandemic, I finally caught COVID. It turned out that two-plus years of masking and distancing, Zoom dinner parties and FaceTime holidays, canceled plans and postponed vacations only delayed the inevitable. I’m sick too. And here on ...
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 ...
After holding court (literally) at the WVU Rec Center since September 2020, Monongalia County Health Department will move its COVID-19 testing and vaccines to its headquarters at 453 Van Voorhis Road. The new schedule begins Monday, with testing on the lower level of MCHD from 8-10 a.m. ...