MORGANTOWN -- Monongalia County Health Department Chief Financial Officer Devan Smith was prepared to come into Thursday morning’s board of health meeting and report MCHD was so-far unscathed by the upheaval in federal funding initiated by the Trump administration. Then, on Tuesday, ...
MORGANTOWN -- Over the course of about 12 days in January, the Monongalia County Health Department followed along as news out of Charleston, then Washington, cast uncertainty on two of its primary funding sources - federal grants and direct state aid. Tackling the more immediate concern ...
MORGANTOWN -- According to Monongalia County Health Officer Dr. Brian Huggins, West Virginia is one of very few states - regardless of political leanings - that hasn’t seen a significant reduction in kindergarten vaccination rates over the last four years. He fears that’s about to ...
Will this past weekend in north-central West Virginia be the one that turns out to be a super-spreader for COVID? That’s what Ed Abbott of the Monongalia County Health Department was wondering last week. After all, said Abbott, who is the department’s program manager for infection ...
MORGANTOWN -- The Monongalia County Health Department has spent 50 years growing into and beyond its two-story brick home at 453 Van Voorhis Road. The end of that run is drawing near. “This building has been here for 50 years. My goal is to get a state-of-the-art facility ...
MORGANTOWN — “Just looking at the graph, it’s pretty shocking. We’ve been saying all along that if COVID never came around, we’d be focused on Lyme disease. New cases are growing at such a rate.” That’s what regional epidemiologist Lucas Moore told The Dominion Post in ...