Monongalia County school district officials spent most of Tuesday sorting through another spate of COVID cases that impacted students and staffers across five schools. “We were busy,” […]
Tag: COVID vaccine
Gov. Justice puts up $100 savings bonds as incentive to get shots
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice Monday appealed to patriotism and love of state in asking West Virginia’s 16- to 35-year-olds for their assistance in boosting vaccination numbers. […]
April 25 letters to the editor
Bill is gov. overreach into patients’ lives The so-called “Second Chance at Life Act” (HB 2982) that is on its way to Gov. Justice’s desk is clearly […]
Long-haul COVID-19 can offer clues for other illnesses
by Leroy Hood Shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic took hold, doctors began seeing puzzling symptoms in patients that lasted well beyond the initial infection period. These COVID-19 […]
Justice rolls out ‘Beat 588 … Bad’ program to convince the vaccine avoiders to get vaccinated
MORGANTOWN — “Beat 588 … Bad” has transformed from a slogan jotted on a piece of notebook paper Wednesday to a full-blown program to try to get […]
‘Beat 588 bad’: Justice wants to convince vaccine holdouts to get theirs so the masks can come off
MORGANTOWN — A Wednesday COVID-19 briefing abuzz with numbers yielded a new slogan from Gov. Jim Justice: “Beat 588 bad.” That’s a number floated by a reporter […]
Vaccine crisis isn’t J&J or AstraZeneca
by David Fickling To judge by the headlines, you’d think the most critical immunization issue facing the world is the safety and hesitancy concerns over the AstraZeneca […]
MHS students, families to receive first Pfizer dose Wednesday
MORGANTOWN — Roughly 300 students, plus family members, will queue up Wednesday at Morgantown High School for their first doses of the Pfizer vaccine. With this school […]
Justice to sign executive order lifting many of his 91 pandemic orders; mask mandate to remain in place
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice announced Monday that he’s issuing a new executive order undoing many of the previous 91 he issued since March 2020 to respond […]
Ask Biden to turn Mylan into vaccine hub
There’s a lot that came out of the Legislature this session that we aren’t thrilled about, but we can definitely get behind HR 24. This resolution passed […]