Normally, we look forward to the first WVU home football game of the season, but this year, we’re looking on with more trepidation than anything else. At the time of this writing, West Virginia leads the nation in the rate of COVID-19 spread. Between Saturday and Wednesday, the state ...
by Dan Kane RALEIGH, N.C. — The latest COVID-19 surge is hitting hospitals hard, with filled ICUs and emergency rooms. I saw some of it up close two weeks ago — as a heart patient. During a workout, I was breathing way too hard and feeling woozy. I cut the workout short and ...
MORGANTOWN — With flu and cold season right around the corner, West Virginians are being urged to get vaccinated against COVID-19. “With flu season coming on in the fall and winter, unvaccinated West Virginians are going to ... cause West Virginia to have a challenging fall and ...
Monongalia Schools Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. said the district will go into September just like a good, compliant patient. That is, it will follow doctor’s orders – the doctor in this instance being Dr. Lee B. Smith, Mon’s county health officer. “We’ll continue to take ...
Sign-wielders on Patteson Drive. Angry parents at school board meetings. “Karens” berating store employees, as seen on social media or in real life. They all have something in common: Cries of “individual choice.” And they’re right: They do have a choice. However, the people ...
Can nothing really change their minds? We are told by those health care workers who feel they should be able to reject being vaccinated for COVID and yet still work in the health care industry that there is nothing anyone can say that will convince them to accept being ...