MORGANTOWN – Repeated questions about the COVID-19 Delta variant prompted an extended monologue on vaccination by Gov. Jim Justice Tuesday. “It's your right to not be vaccinated, I get that totally,” he said. “What's the downside? … Do you not believe that if all West Virginians ...
by Doyle McManus For a few blessed weeks there, it was possible to believe the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States was nearing its end. Case numbers were plummeting, restaurants were reopening, and life seemed almost normal. No longer; the fast-spreading Delta variant has reached ...
Elementary students need to wear masks For the past 15 months, West Virginians have banded together to drive our COVID-19 infection and death rates down. We have been successful: The statistics show new infections are basically non-existent, leading people to become more relaxed about mask ...
MORGANTOWN -- Gov. Jim Justice’s Do it for Babydog: Save a life, Change your life vaccination sweepstakes offers vaccinated individuals a weekly chance to win $1 million, trucks, guns, vacations and other prizes. Several residents of Monongalia and Preston counties have won in the first two ...
Two weeks ago, West Virginia COVID-19 Czar Dr. Clay Marsh warned that a newer and potentially more dangerous variant of the virus would soon arrive here. “We’re approaching a yellow light,” Marsh said June 16. “A yellow light is the risk of a new variant coming to West ...
MORGANTOWN – West Virginia's vaccination numbers continue to trickle downward – as they are in many other states – but Gov. Jim Justice put a good face on it Thursday, saying West Virginians have nothing to be ashamed of. The state is among those struggling to get younger people ...