A former official within the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to knowingly making false statements to federal investigators regarding millions of dollars in COVID-19 testing supplies that were not properly accounted ...
Regular readers may have noticed we no longer display COVID-19 case numbers on the front page, nor do we include vaccine/testing information on A-2. The explanation for the latter is the simplest, so we’ll start there. In early June, Gov. Jim Justice announced the state would scale back ...
by Jonathan Bernstein Democrats should be pushing hard this week — not next week! — to break the logjam preventing full funding for pandemic prevention and treatment. There’s no excuse not to get it done. Some policy decisions are difficult. Economists disagreed on the best ...
We’re taking a break from the politics that rule our daily editorials to talk about the other thing that dominates the headlines: COVID-19. Starting Jan. 15 and Jan. 19, respectively, President Biden and his administration ordered insurance companies to cover eight at-home COVID tests ...
Gov. Jim Justice, Dr. Clay Mash and Gen. James Hoyer continued their push for vaccinations and boosters in the Mountain State Monday, as hospitalization numbers continue to increase due to the omicron variant. According to Marsh, 94% of sequenced cases have been omicron. After reading an ...
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito and Rep. David McKinley both signed on to a “friend of the court” brief opposing the Biden administration’s OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Administration) “vaccine mandate” — in quotations because an employee can choose to remain unvaccinated, but ...