MORGANTOWN — Researchers are still evaluating the use of hydroxychloroquine for treatment or prevention of COVID-19, but it still has well-documented use in helping millions of people around the world […]
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Course prepares more than 150 volunteers to assist in contact tracing
MORGANTOWN — More than 150 volunteers from throughout West Virginia have now completed Contact Tracing and Pandemic Response, a training developed by the West Virginia University School of Public Health […]
Residents of homeless camp say they’ll stay on city property until needs are met
MORGANTOWN — About 20 residents of a homeless encampment known as Diamond Village have set up on an adjoining piece of city of Morgantown property and plan to occupy the […]
More research needed on virus
Ayne Amjad, West Virginia’s state medical officer, said she doesn’t believe COVID-19 is a particularly deadly illness. What is deadly, she continued, is our inability to fully understand and fight […]
Trips decline during pandemic
Susan McDonald Daniels, a Morgantown travel agent, is playing the waiting game for now. Daniels, like many, is waiting for a COVID-19 vaccine — and for a time when she […]
Morgantown High teacher speaks of back to school
Virtual options will resemble home -schooling Caution. Trepidatious, too. Both of the above have never been in the educator-lexicon of Sam Brunett, who has been in front of classrooms for […]
Tips for helping contact tracers
A lot has happened since the last health department column appeared in these pages two weeks ago. Then, it was reported that the number of positive COVID-19 cases in Monongalia […]
ACT/SAT optional in spring admission
WVU Today As the COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the ability of many college-bound high school students to take either the ACT or the SAT, West Virginia University has […]
Justice dismisses claim that COVID-19 no worse than the flu
MORGANTOWN — Anyone spending time on social media will inevitably encounter varying degrees of skepticism about the COVID-19 pandemic. At its most extreme are those who say it’s all manufactured […]
State numbers grow worse but optimism remains at governor’s office; death toll reaches 100
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia’s COVID-19 death toll reached 100 Friday morning. Gov. Jim Justice remarked on it at the start of his Friday briefing. “Our numbers continue in not the […]
