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WVU to extend indoor mask requirement through Oct. 20

WVU Today West Virginia University will extend requirements for all individuals, regardless of vaccination status, to wear a mask indoors in all WVU System buildings and facilities through Oct. 20, when public health conditions will be reevaluated. The announcement is an extension of ...

COVID-19 booster shot available for high-risk, elderly individuals

MORGANTOWN — COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are available to select populations across the United States, and several locations in the Morgantown and surrounding area are available to distribute it to those eligible. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the ...

MCHD will not offer monoclonal antibody infusions

MORGANTOWN — The Monongalia County Health Department does not intend to administer monoclonal antibody infusions. The treatment, which has emergency-use authorization from the FDA, is a 250 ml intravenous infusion of lab-created proteins intended to boost the immune system of recipients ...

Save a Life Day

Monongalia County Health Department About 1,408 doses of naloxone reached the hands of the general public on Saturday during Save a Life Day, an effort to make the medication, which reverses the effects of an opioid overdose, more accessible to members of the community. Volunteers were ...

Stay safe, Hospitals are pretty crowded right now

Now, more than ever, you don’t want to have a heart attack. Or get into a car accident. Or break your leg. None of those incidents are fun in any circumstances. But getting treated for them now, with hospitals pushed to the limits because of COVID-19, probably wouldn’t be a ...