MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice announced Do It For Babydog Round 2 on Friday. As before, the goal is to get younger residents vaccinated, he said. “We'll try to incentivize more and more and more to get across the finish line.” Babydog was on hand for the announcement, seated on a ...
MORGANTOWN -- West Virginia marked a sad milestone Thursday as COVID-19 deaths topped 3,000 in the state — at 3,0001. With the more infectious, deadlier Delta variant causing surges nationwide, the pandemic has killed more than 624,000 people in the United States. According to Reuters, ...
They told them they had bad blood. What they actually had was syphilis, but the U.S. Public Health Service never shared that diagnosis with the almost 400 African American men, most of them poor and under-educated sharecroppers, they recruited for a secret study at Tuskegee Institute in ...
With COVID uncertainty still shading the proceedings, Monongalia County teachers are reporting to their classrooms today, in preparation of next week’s first day of school. Sam Brunett said he still isn’t sure what kind of picture COVID will paint across the district is coming ...
MORGANTOWN – While just under 30% of the state's eligible population remains unvaccinated, West Virginia is now looking to some extent to Sept. 20, when the U.S government says it will make booster shots available for all Americans who are eight months out from their second Pfizer or ...
MORGANTOWN — “It’s my sincere hope,” County Health Officer Dr. Lee Smith began his remarks to the Monongalia County Commission, “that someday I’ll have some good news to bring forward.” Wednesday was not that day. In a meeting that saw the commission approve a new ...