At Thursday’s press conference, Gov. Jim Justice and his COVID advisors continued to press West Virginians to get vaccinated, and specifically to get booster shots ahead of an expected winter surge. With COVID czar Dr. Clay Marsh absent, it fell to Joint Interagency Task Force Director ...
MORGANTOWN – The Justice team again Thursday urged COVID vaccinations and boosters for all West Virginia residents. They also fielded a question about discrepancies in the vaccine numbers of the Department of Health and Human Resources COVID-19 dashboard. On Tuesday, they had discussed ...
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice and his COVID-19 team gathered for briefing again Tuesday as the world turns its attention to the new omicron variant. COVID-19 Czar Clay Marsh called omicron “a very concerning variant.” It has more than 50 mutations, and more than 30 mutations on the ...
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice's last COVID briefing was Wednesday, and he won't be back to renew his pleas to get vaccinated and to get vaccine boosters until Tuesday. In the meantime, here is a look at some of the numbers that are driving his and his team's constant refrain. Out of ...
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice and his COVID team again cautioned West Virginians to take precautions against COVID as winter weather sets in. Joint Interagency Task Force Director James Hoyer said the Rt rate – the estimated measure of virus spread – has been rising for the past 10 ...
MORGANTOWN – Gov. Jim Justice happily noted that the FDA expanded COVID vaccine booster eligibility on Friday – a message he'd been trying to get across for the past few weeks. “Hopefully the encouragement that we have given from West Virginia maybe helped move the needle a little ...