It’s one thing to know, in the abstract sense, that misinformation is being spread around your community. It’s another to hear it for yourself. In the past week, we’ve heard a couple of rumors about the COVID-19 vaccine being peddled as if they were fact, when the facts clearly ...
MORGANTOWN -- Gov. Jim Justice and his advisors held the last COVID-19 briefing before the Christmas holiday Thursday morning. Justice took time early in the press conference to give an overview of how the state plans to spend its remaining $122 million in CARES Act funds. Roughly 15 ...
MORGANTOWN — The CDC opened the door on Friday for just about anyone who's had the Pfizer vaccine to get a booster, Gov. Jim Justice said, and he urged people to do it. “Without question in any way, go get the booster shot, go get the booster shot now,” he said. The CDC announced ...
On Monday, the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine received full FDA approval, making it the first of the vaccines to be cleared beyond emergency use. And with that approval came a slew of vaccine mandates. Following Monday’s announcement, WVU Medicine and Mon Health systems both ...
MORGANTOWN — Pfizer and two of its subsidiaries have agreed to a $345 million settlement in a four-year class-action antitrust lawsuit concerning Mylan's EpiPen. Pfizer subsidiary Meridian manufactures the EpiPen epinephrine auto-injector for Mylan. The plaintiffs alleged that Mylan and ...
Sam Watson kept looking down at the adhesive bandage on his arm. “One down, one to go,” the Suncrest Middle School eighth-grader said with a grin. Sam and his classmates made a steady procession into the gym of the school on Baldwin Street. In a place where basketball is normally ...