KINGWOOD — A search for naloxone led a Kingwood police officer to the Monongalia County Quick Response Team. “I was responding to overdose calls, and I would get to the scene before the ambulance. I didn’t have the equipment I needed to help the person,” Officer Gina McNemar ...
Three F’s and a D. No, it isn’t your kid’s report card from his first freshman semester after going off to college. It is, however, a societal grading, with lots of virology mixed in. And it’s the kind of assessment that Dr. Clay Marsh, the state COVID-19 czar and WVU ...
If you had the opportunity to learn the Heimlich maneuver to keep somebody from choking to death, you wouldn’t think twice, right? If you were trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), you’d most likely administer it to someone who has lost consciousness. And if you knew a way ...
Monongalia Schools Superintendent Eddie Campbell Jr. said the district will go into September just like a good, compliant patient. That is, it will follow doctor’s orders – the doctor in this instance being Dr. Lee B. Smith, Mon’s county health officer. “We’ll continue to take ...
In recent Septembers, wildfires continue to rage on the West Coast while hurricanes and category storms make their way up the East Coast. We begin to think about influenza inoculations and, of course, this year, the COVID-19 vaccine, with the Pfizer brand just receiving full approval from ...
MORGANTOWN — “It’s my sincere hope,” County Health Officer Dr. Lee Smith began his remarks to the Monongalia County Commission, “that someday I’ll have some good news to bring forward.” Wednesday was not that day. In a meeting that saw the commission approve a new ...