MORGANTOWN — It's Day 537 of the pandemic, Joint Interagency Task Force Director Gen. James Hoyer said Wednesday. There are 670 West Virginians hospitalized with COVID, he said, with 202 in ICUs — just shy of the Jan. 6 peak of 219. Of those in ICUs, 109 are on ventilators — topping ...
MORGANTOWN – The West Virginia Osteopathic Medical Association has called on Gov. Jim Justice to immediately issue a statewide mask mandate. The WVOMA sent a letter to Justice on Monday and announced it in a Tuesday release. Justice's office did not respond to a request for comment sent ...
MORGANTOWN – State Sen. Randy Smith has asked Gov. Jim Justice to call a special session of the Legislature in order to pass a bill to prohibit a statewide vaccine mandate. Smith, R-Tucker, sent the letter on Friday, with a copy to Senate President Craig Blair, R-Berkeley. Smith ...
MORGANTOWN — With active COVID cases topping 16,000 on Monday, Gov. Jim Justice and his team continued pushing for people to get vaccinated. Joint Interagency Task Force Director Gen. James Hoyer said 82% of those hospitalized with COVID are unvaccinated and 74% of those who died from ...
MORGANTOWN — Gov. Jim Justice and his team again pleaded with people to get vaccinated. Justice also again expressed his reluctance to mandate masks. “I am not an advocate of mandates. I am not an advocate of masks,” he said. “We've been through enough.” But we've stayed ...
MORGANTOWN — The COVID numbers keep climbing, and mandates are creeping closer, but Gov. Justice and his team are still clinging to hope that the holdouts will take some responsibility, they said Wednesday. “Absolutely, we have got to get vaccinated right now,” Justice said. For ...