It’s not a surprise COVID came to class when kids came back to school. But now the Delta variant, which is much more infectious for children than COVID Classic, is making its rounds through the student body. It’s a problem across the nation, but just here in north-central West ...
by Michael Hiltzik Doctors and hospital administrators are facing yet another way in which the pandemic has shaken up social and medical norms: a string of lawsuits in which judges have ordered them to treat patients with ivermectin, a drug that lacks any scientific evidence of ...
KINGWOOD -- At Monday night’s two-hour Preston County Board of Education meeting some board members said they wouldn’t vote for a vaccine mandate, the board and concerned parents agreed to form a committee to discuss how to move forward with school as COVID continues and the ...
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice aimed to up the impact of his ongoing plea to get vaccinated, drawing on the testimony of a Kanawha County mother and a prominent physician during his Monday COVID-19 briefing. Linda Lanier appeared via Zoom and told the story of her son, Joey Goodnite: a ...
‘Your rights stop where mine begin’ As an older and somewhat immune-compromised person, I could not wait to be fully vaccinated so that I could function as normally as possible. Masking is not always comfortable, but it sure beats getting sick or infecting someone else. This all ...
Three F’s and a D. No, it isn’t your kid’s report card from his first freshman semester after going off to college. It is, however, a societal grading, with lots of virology mixed in. And it’s the kind of assessment that Dr. Clay Marsh, the state COVID-19 czar and WVU ...