by Josh Gohlke A million Americans have been lost to the pandemic, according to the federal government’s official count, making this a disaster that defies most comparisons. And yet it’s so much worse. By the time the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the ...
by Mia Ives-Rublee In his recent article in The Atlantic, Ed Yong posed a poignant question: “What does society owe immunocompromised people?” During the massive surge in COVID cases in the fall and winter of 2020, I remember seeing commercial after commercial proclaiming that ...
by Joshua Pederson Twenty-five months into the pandemic, I finally caught COVID. It turned out that two-plus years of masking and distancing, Zoom dinner parties and FaceTime holidays, canceled plans and postponed vacations only delayed the inevitable. I’m sick too. And here on ...
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice and his team celebrated the news that Moderna on Thursday asked the FDA to OK use of its vaccine for children ages 6 and under. Justice noted that this is the only age group not yet eligible to be vaccinated (apart from a slight overlap with the Pfizer ...
Have you rolled up your sleeve for your second booster? Well, this is your moment, Dr. Anthony Fauci told reporters on Wednesday. Fauci, the nation’s top infectious expert, was talking about such moments during an interview with The Associated Press. While cases do appear to be ...
by Nicholas Goldberg At the start of the pandemic, in late March 2020, President Donald Trump held a White House briefing at which his top advisers presented their official COVID-19 death projections. In somber tones, they forecasted that between 100,000 and 240,000 Americans would die ...