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The death toll from conservative politicization of the pandemic

With light apparently at the end of the coronavirus tunnel, this is a good time to soberly assess how America handled the pandemic and can better handle whatever new wave might come. A new study shows that what the nation should not do again is listen to anti-science extremists — including ...

Going to be hard for Justice to sue Kabler when Kabler is right

Of the 24 minutes Gov. Jim Justice spoke during his COVID briefing Monday, before taking questions from the press, he dedicated at least 10 minutes to complaining about — and threatening to sue — the Charleston Gazette-Mail and its reporter/columnist Phil Kabler for a “Statehouse ...

State passes 6,000 deaths

West Virginia passed another bleak milestone Monday, surpassing 6,000 COVID-19 deaths in the state. Justice read an additional 31 victims at the start of Monday’s briefing, bringing the toll to date to 6,023. “It rips my heart out in so many ways and I just hate it,” Justice ...