It’s late fall and all the seasonal illnesses are making their rounds: colds, flu, COVID, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) and other respiratory viruses and infections. Unfortunately, modern medicine doesn’t have a preventative vaccine for everything that ails us, but it’s important ...
by Faye Flam Fewer than half of eligible Americans have received a third COVID vaccine shot despite clear evidence of its benefit. That booster shot improves your odds of avoiding even mild omicron. So why haven’t more people gotten it? One reason may be that we’re all over map ...
Newsroom@DominionPost.com Marking the one-year anniversary of the first COVID-19 vaccine’s availability in West Virginia, top health experts across the state are reaching out through an open letter to urge West Virginians to get vaccinated and boosted against the virus that causes ...
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice Tuesday marked the one-year anniversary of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine coming to West Virginia, and again joined with his team to urge more vaccines and boosters as new surges appear on the horizon. Justice said that 92.2% of the state's 5,114 COVID-related ...
The phrase “grim milestone” has cropped up with such frequency in the last 20 months that it’s beginning to lose its meaning. Because West Virginia surpassed the grime milestone of 5,000 state deaths last week, and barely anyone paused. Nearly 4,000 of those deaths have occurred ...
“Do It For Babydog” just keeps going … and going … and going … even when it has become obvious the lottery isn’t working. Several academic studies have looked at the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccine lotteries. In at least one, published in October, that examined the 19 ...