When we talk about catching waves over the summer, this is not the kind of wave we mean. Because as summer winds down, it’s not ocean waves many of us are riding — it’s the still-climbing wave of a COVID surge. If it feels like everyone around you has COVID (or just had COVID), you ...
by Eric J. Topol The pandemic is far from over, as evidenced by the rapid rise to global dominance of the JN.1 variant of SARS-CoV-2. This variant is a derivative of BA.2.86, the only other strain that has carried more than 30 new mutations in the spike protein since omicron first came ...
MORGANTOWN – Social media abounds with posts questioning the reality and severity of the COVID pandemic, and the safety and effectiveness of the COVID vaccines. A recent Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey revealed widespread alarm about COVID vaccines: 49% of American adults ...
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice briefly addressed his thoughts on running for U.S. Senate during Tuesday's COVID briefing. But it was a COVID briefing and before the press dove into politics, Justice and his team talked numbers and vaccines. Tuesday's pandemic death toll was 7,590, and ...
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 ...
MORGANTOWN – While COVID cases and hospitalizations are steadily dwindling, Gov. Jim Justice and his team remain vigilant as chilly weather sets in. “It's starting to get colder, it's absolutely going to be more and more and more folks inside. The chances absolutely of this things ...