MORGANTOWN — “I never want to push my agenda or my way of thinking on people, but I will say … If you haven’t had your shot, you should consider it.” Before vaccines were available, Clarksburg Mayor Jimmy Marino contracted COVID and spent weeks in the hospital. Marino said the ...
MORGANTOWN — The state's total COVID death toll dropped over the weekend. After Friday's COVID briefing from the governor's office the number stood at 6,835. Tuesday's figure was 6,716. Gov. Jim Justice read off 11 new deaths. But 122 deaths from 2021 listed as COVID deaths were, in ...
by Michael Hiltzik The final results are in, and they’re incontrovertible: Ivermectin, that nostrum assiduously promoted by anti-vaccine advocates and conspiracy-mongers, is utterly useless against COVID-19. That’s the conclusion of a peer-reviewed study of more than 1,350 COVID ...
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice on Thursday celebrated the CDC following the lead of the FDA decision earlier this week to allow second COVID boosters for certain people. The CDC joined the FDA to authorize a second booster dose of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines for people age 50 and up ...
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 ...
MORGANTOWN — Based on its internal data, the Monongalia County Health Department has participated in the administration of more than 88,000 doses of the various COVID-19 vaccinations across a number of locations. That’s to say nothing of the department’s efforts focused on education, ...