by Faye Flam Something is altering the normal seasonal currents of cold and flu viruses. They slowed to a trickle during the early part of the COVID-19 pandemic only to blast through human populations this year. Some public health experts have called it a “tripledemic,” but it ...
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice issued a proclamation to end the pandemic state of emergency back on Nov. 12, but never announced it, so the public didn't know until a former reporter tweeted about it Tuesday night and the word spread. The reasoning for the proclamation and its remaining ...
Please pass the COVID. That’s precisely what Donna Talerico hopes won’t happen during Thanksgiving break for Monongalia County’s public school students. “This will be a good time to get your COVID booster if you haven’t already,” said Talerico, the district’s deputy ...
MORGANTOWN – COVID-19 Czar Clay Marsh weighed in recently about COVID confusion and COVID fatigue and what we need to keep in mind as it moves from the forefront of fear back in 2020 to background noise now for many. The omicron variant spike is past, with cases in West Virginia ...
Keeping them all open would have been worse by Michael Hiltzik If there’s one aspect of pandemic policy that seems to have elicited agreement across the political spectrum, it’s that closing schools and keeping them closed into 2021 was a blunder. The consequences of extended ...
WVU TODAY A steady increase in respiratory illnesses across the United States as winter approaches is leading health experts at West Virginia University and elsewhere to warn of a possible “tridemic,” widespread occurrences of influenza, COVID-19 and respiratory syncytial virus or ...