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Tag: COVID-19
Name confusion leads to vaccine cancellations
MORGANTOWN — West Virginia University and WVU Medicine sound similar, but they are two separate entities. And that caused a lot of confusion with people who wanted to register to […]
Justice opens door for more to get vaccinated
Gov. Jim Justice opened the doors Monday for more West Virginians who have pre-existing medical conditions to get the COVID-19 vaccine, with the goal of having almost all state residents […]
Lessons from the Pandemic
WVU Today Under the quiet surface of near-stilled campuses over the past year, West Virginia University researchers, faculty and administrators have scrambled to learn more about COVID-19 and mitigate its […]
WVU alum talks vaccine development
There are Mountaineers all over the world. Including James Shirey, who has worked for pharmaceutical giant Pfizer since 1991. In October 2019 he was named vice-president, global sterile injectables quality. […]
Local seamstress supplied community with 2,020 masks during first year of pandemic
A local seamstress made a quilt out of material scraps left over from making over 2,000 masks during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Linda Anderson boasts many titles: […]
A look at CARES spending and money coming under the American Rescue Plan
BE INFORMED: This is one in a series of articles to mark Sunshine Week, which is a national initiative to educate the public about the importance of open government. MORGANTOWN […]
One Year of COVID-19
When March began in 2020, we were all going about our business as usual. Waiting for tables in crowded restaurants, attending concerts, sitting shoulder to shoulder in movie theaters, heading […]
COVID-19 survivors talk about their experiences with the virus
MORGANTOWN — Kevin Deming had the dubious distinction of being the first person in Monongalia County to be diagnosed with COVID-19 in March 2020. “I returned from a trip to […]
MHS teacher tests positive for COVID Friday, as colleagues were being vaccinated
Morgantown High School picked up a case of irony Friday to go with another positive diagnosis of COVID-19. It was announced that an MHS teacher had come down with the […]
