Put all those Zoom meetings over here and all that email over there while you’re at it. Text messages — can’t forget those. Or those oh-so-20th century landline telephone calls. Mix in a […]
Tag: pandemic
City hires manager; adapts to pandemic
Please mute yourself when you’re not speaking. If the above means anything to you, you’ve likely spent at least some portion of the past year staring at colleagues or classmates […]
Mon schools face plans, pandemic, petition
First request for charter school doesn’t make it Eddie Campbell Jr.’s adherence to planning, and The Plan, helped him survive, and thrive, in some pretty extreme environments in the education […]
Pandemic causing ‘quiet stress’
MORGANTOWN — One in five West Virginia residents have reportedly suffered from “quiet stress” this year, according to a survey conducted by American Addiction Centers. American Addiction Centers, a provider […]
Giving thanks in a very unusual year
I have no idea how it happened, but with Thanksgiving a mere five days away, it seems it’s time for me to make my annual list of things for which […]
MHS positive case may affect students, teachers
Another positive coronavirus case recorded at Morgantown High School on Friday will likely involve a number of teachers and several students by the time the contact tracing is done, the […]
Pandemic-related unemployment contributes to overdose increase
Isolation, unemployment and disposable income. Bob Hansen, executive director of the Office of Drug Control Policy for the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Services, said those factors, both […]
Food for Preston sees uptick from March to June
KINGWOOD — The number of people served by the mobile food pantry in Preston County increased from March to June. According to figures provided by Food For Preston, numbers served […]
Tweaking the makeup of hydroxychloroquine beyond COVID-19
MORGANTOWN — Researchers are still evaluating the use of hydroxychloroquine for treatment or prevention of COVID-19, but it still has well-documented use in helping millions of people around the world […]
Course prepares more than 150 volunteers to assist in contact tracing
MORGANTOWN — More than 150 volunteers from throughout West Virginia have now completed Contact Tracing and Pandemic Response, a training developed by the West Virginia University School of Public Health […]
