There wasn’t much new on the agenda during Gov. Jim Justice’s COVID-19 briefing Monday — the pleas to be vaccinated and boosted continued, amid omicron’s still-strong hold on the state. While the number of new cases is beginning to trend downward, Dr. Clay Marsh said, experts know ...
We’re taking a break from the politics that rule our daily editorials to talk about the other thing that dominates the headlines: COVID-19. Starting Jan. 15 and Jan. 19, respectively, President Biden and his administration ordered insurance companies to cover eight at-home COVID tests ...
Rep. David McKinley recently sent out a press release titled, “President Biden’s Year of Crisis, Failure,” with this quote blaming the president for “a rising 40-year high inflation rate ... on top of higher gas and energy prices, a supply chain shortage leaving store shelves bare, a ...
I got COVID. It started with symptoms late last week — congestion mostly — and then a positive test that Friday. At the worst of it, I felt like I had a cold. I took over-the-counter pain relievers a couple of times, slept a lot, kept hydrated and that was it. Never had to go to the ...
MORGANTOWN — The choices being made locally by public health officials in response to COVID-19 are not taken lightly and are certainly not without consequence. That was the takeaway from an exchange between Monongalia County Health Officer Dr. Lee Smith and county resident Sam Morrone, ...
As the state’s COVID-19 team has warned was likely in the last several briefings, West Virginia has officially hit its highest number of residents hospitalized with the virus to date — 1,043. The previous peak saw 1,012 people admitted with the disease. Even more concerned, said ...