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Boosting COVID-19 vaccination among minorities

WVU Today The West Virginia University School of Public Health is providing critical insights to help target minority communities and other key demographics as the state works to boost its vaccination rate amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Online surveys and focus groups conducted by Linda ...

Gov. Justice’s vaccine exemption bill triggers backlash

The special session of the West Virginia Legislature to redraw the legislative and congressional boundaries was moving along relatively smoothly, at least as lawmaking goes. But then a curve ball — albeit unintended — came flying through the halls of the Capitol. That curve ball is a ...

Mon Schools nursing director wins state award for service

MORGANTOWN -- Last spring, when Monongalia County Schools rolled out the first COVID vaccines for students 12-15 years of age, that event, in many ways, was like an emergency room waiting area — all at once. An emergency room waiting area that was quite full. Some 1,500 shots were ...

The underestimated value of conversation

By its very nature, the written word is not the best vehicle for a conversation. Texting has brought it as close to real-time dialogue as writing can get, but written words like these — the ones you are reading right now and that have occupied this space in the past — aren’t suited ...