Infected people have coughed on me, maskless. I didn’t get COVID. I’ve attended parties that became super-spreader events — didn’t get COVID. I never sheltered in place […]
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AG Morrisey joins other states in efforts against CDC mask mandate and EPA climate actions
MORGANTOWN — State Attorney General Patrick Morrisey joined in multi-state actions against the CDC and EPA on Tuesday. In the first action, Morrisey joined a 23-state amicus […]
Fuzzy language not helping fight COVID
by Faye Flam People no longer know what to do about the COVID pandemic. Part of the problem is the very language we use to talk about […]
Masks remain an essential tool to protect against COVID
by Mia Ives-Rublee In his recent article in The Atlantic, Ed Yong posed a poignant question: “What does society owe immunocompromised people?” During the massive surge in […]
Are you playing the ‘who gave me COVID’ blame game?
by Joshua Pederson Twenty-five months into the pandemic, I finally caught COVID. It turned out that two-plus years of masking and distancing, Zoom dinner parties and FaceTime […]
COVID: Not out of the woods yet
West Virginia’s COVID statistics are improving nearly every day. DHHR figures show the number of active COVID cases has steadily declined — from over 20,000 in late […]
I nearly died from COVID. Now I’m letting go of the fear
by David Lat Two years ago, I was in a hospital bed on the 15th floor of NYU Langone hospital in Manhattan, dying of COVID-19. A previously […]
Two years of pandemic and counting
by Robin Abcarian Has it really been two years since life as we knew it came to a screeching halt? In the third week of March 2020, […]
‘Follow the science’ is a slogan, not policy
by Faye Flam Almost everybody wants to be seen as embracing science. That’s true whether they are arguing to take masks off or leave them on, or […]
Giving up COVID, but keeping masks and fist bumps
by Nolan Finley I gave up my fear of COVID-19 the moment the second shot of the Moderna vaccine went into my arm a year ago. The […]
