MORGANTOWN — The Monongalia County Health Department does not intend to administer monoclonal antibody infusions. The treatment, which has emergency-use authorization from the FDA, is a 250 ml intravenous infusion of lab-created proteins intended to boost the immune system of recipients ...
The United States has reached a devastating milestone: We’ve lost more Americans to COVID-19 than we lost to the influenza pandemic of 1918. As of this writing, over 694,000 people in the U.S. have died from COVID; the 1918 flu took around 675,000 American lives. It’s hard not to be ...
MORGANTOWN — A few of the COVID numbers dipped back downward Wednesday and Gov. Jim Justice expressed some optimism. “We think we're at the peak level,” he said. “There's absolutely every reason to believe we're right at the eye of the storm.” Mandates — vaccine and masks ...
Courtney Whitehead spends her days dancing with data in Monongalia County’s school district. At Tuesday night’s Board of Education meeting, she got to perform a love song. She was singing, in effect, for the excess levy, which voters resoundingly renewed during Saturday’s special ...
KINGWOOD -- Preston County students will keep their masks on through October. After that, it depends. The county’s Board of Education spent over an hour with two parents -- Teri Kisner and Angie Harrison, who were representing a larger group concerned about the various masks and ...
MORGANTOWN -- It was business as usual in Monongalia County schools last week. Students shuffled in for class and teachers worked from their lesson plans. Football teams and marching bands performed under the Friday night lights. County voters renewed the excess levy for education, ...