Monongalia County school board members got to do something during their meeting Tuesday night that hasn’t always been possible over the past three years: They got to look ahead. With the tide of the pandemic rolling back out — for now— they discussed the first day of school for the ...
Donna Talerico has never been happier to see such low marks in Monongalia County’s school system. “It’s like night and day,” she said. The deputy superintendent of schools was talking about the single-digit COVID report the district presented last week. Just six positive ...
MORGANTOWN — The state's total COVID death toll dropped over the weekend. After Friday's COVID briefing from the governor's office the number stood at 6,835. Tuesday's figure was 6,716. Gov. Jim Justice read off 11 new deaths. But 122 deaths from 2021 listed as COVID deaths were, in ...
by Michael Hiltzik The final results are in, and they’re incontrovertible: Ivermectin, that nostrum assiduously promoted by anti-vaccine advocates and conspiracy-mongers, is utterly useless against COVID-19. That’s the conclusion of a peer-reviewed study of more than 1,350 COVID ...
by Jonathan Bernstein Democrats should be pushing hard this week — not next week! — to break the logjam preventing full funding for pandemic prevention and treatment. There’s no excuse not to get it done. Some policy decisions are difficult. Economists disagreed on the best ...
MORGANTOWN — Based on its internal data, the Monongalia County Health Department has participated in the administration of more than 88,000 doses of the various COVID-19 vaccinations across a number of locations. That’s to say nothing of the department’s efforts focused on education, ...