MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice and his COVID-19 team gathered for briefing again Tuesday as the world turns its attention to the new omicron variant. COVID-19 Czar Clay Marsh called omicron “a very concerning variant.” It has more than 50 mutations, and more than 30 mutations on the ...
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice's last COVID briefing was Wednesday, and he won't be back to renew his pleas to get vaccinated and to get vaccine boosters until Tuesday. In the meantime, here is a look at some of the numbers that are driving his and his team's constant refrain. Out of ...
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice and his COVID team again cautioned West Virginians to take precautions against COVID as winter weather sets in. Joint Interagency Task Force Director James Hoyer said the Rt rate – the estimated measure of virus spread – has been rising for the past 10 ...
For a selection of households across Monongalia County this year, Thanksgiving dinner will be COVID-covered 1,077 times more than it was this time last year. The above total is how many vaccines went into the arms of students, staffers and others associated with the county school district ...
by Alyssa Stephenson-Fam and Linda Eckert In our high-risk pregnancy clinics there are three vaccine conversations that we have with patients regularly. First, there are patients who are vaccinated for COVID-19 and counting down the days until they can schedule a booster shot. ...
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice happily noted that the FDA expanded COVID vaccine booster eligibility on Friday – a message he'd been trying to get across for the past few weeks. “Hopefully the encouragement that we have given from West Virginia maybe helped move the needle a little ...