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 ...
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 ...
Newsroom@DominionPost.com As of Friday, Monongalia County Health Department was following nearly 200 COVID-19 variants of concern, including more than 32 cases of the United Kingdom variant [B.1.1.7], and 164 cases of the California variant, which has two mutations ...
MORGANTOWN -- Monongalia County Board of Health President Sam Chico said the health department needs to start compiling all available data on the county’s severe COVID-19 cases and deaths, even if he has to help fund that research. During a recent gathering of the board, Chico ...
MORGANTOWN -- Monongalia County Health Officer Lee Smith isn’t one to mince words in the best of times. But after more than a year at the center of the area’s COVID-19 response, he may be running low on patience, particularly with Charleston. On Thursday, the Monongalia County ...
MORGANTOWN -- There are variant strains of COVID-19 in Monongalia County. That’s the bad news, we know. The good news? The epidemiologists at the Monongalia County Health Department are all over it. And according to county health officer Dr. Lee Smith, that’s no small ...