Children — some as young as toddlers just learning to walk, some well into their adolescence — with metal braces caging each leg, crutches tucked up under their armpits to hold them upright, while still others sat wheelchair bound. And they were the lucky ones. Some children ...
by Saad B. Omer Pandemics have consequences beyond the death and disease directly caused by the novel pathogen. In the 1918 influenza pandemic, more deaths were caused by the pneumococcal bacterium among those made susceptible to bacterial infection by influenza than by the flu ...
After holding court (literally) at the WVU Rec Center since September 2020, Monongalia County Health Department will move its COVID-19 testing and vaccines to its headquarters at 453 Van Voorhis Road. The new schedule begins Monday, with testing on the lower level of MCHD from 8-10 a.m. ...
There wasn’t much new on the agenda during Gov. Jim Justice’s COVID-19 briefing Monday — the pleas to be vaccinated and boosted continued, amid omicron’s still-strong hold on the state. While the number of new cases is beginning to trend downward, Dr. Clay Marsh said, experts know ...
Governor Jim Justice and his pandemic advisors raised early alarms of the impact an impending omicron variant surge could have on West Virginians, particularly if younger citizens don’t increase their vaccination rates. Justice announced that the number of omicron cases in the state ...
In mid-December, The Dominion Post reported the Monongalia County Health Department was awarded a $1 million Health Resources & Services Administration grant, which it will then be in charge of distributing across Monongalia, Marion, Preston, Harrison, Taylor and possibly Barbour ...