by Mary McNamara As I write this, it is Monday and I am sick, one of our toilets is clogged, and my husband is off to the […]
Tag: covid
Promising findings in the quest for treating people with long COVID
by Lisa Jarvis A new study published last week in Science makes a compelling case that people with long COVID have a chronic imbalance in their immune […]
Mountain Line ridership on the rise, but still well below pre-COVID totals
Mountain Line General Manager Maria Smith said public transit numbers are rebounding nationally post-COVID, but the comeback is going to take some time. For the five years […]
Why are we still playing make-believe?
by Eric J. Topol The pandemic is far from over, as evidenced by the rapid rise to global dominance of the JN.1 variant of SARS-CoV-2. This variant […]
Proof teachers make a difference
Early this month, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development released the results of its triennial, global standardized test for 15-year-olds. More than half of the 81 […]
The importance of vaccinations
It’s late fall and all the seasonal illnesses are making their rounds: colds, flu, COVID, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and other respiratory viruses and infections. Unfortunately, modern […]
Tired of COVID? Fine. But don’t shame the mask
by Nedra Rhone A few days before attending a small gathering of friends, I came down with cold, allergy, flu or possibly COVID-19 symptoms. It was at […]
Kamala Harris must take charge of her own destiny
Visiting France is always perilous for politicians, given how easily populist American buffoons can take potshots at that epicurean nation, still an all-purpose symbol for snobbish elitism. […]
WVU Medicine to offer COVID booster shot clinic Oct. 29
MORGANTOWN — WVU Medicine will offer Pfizer-BioNTech booster COVID vaccines from 8 a.m.- noon Friday at its vaccine clinic in the former Sears location at the Morgantown […]
Mon schools superintendent: Declining COVID numbers in local district reflect state trend of the same
MORGANTOWN — Eddie Campbell Jr. notched a pandemic first Monday afternoon. That was when the Monongalia County school superintendent confessed he’s actually rooting for all zeros on […]