From staff reports
PARKERSBURG — With more COVID-19 patients than at its peak in January, WVU Medicine Camden Clark was diverting patients Tuesday from the emergency room and hospital, although that ended Tuesday evening.
The hospital declared a “mini-disaster alert” early Tuesday ...
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice and state COVID-19 response officials have spent the last few weeks preaching the same message on the need for vaccinations, but on Monday’s briefing they let a family member of a COVID patient and a doctor on the front lines do the speaking.
During ...
MARIETTA — The leaders of nine southeast Ohio hospitals and health systems released a joint letter Monday urging residents in Washington, Noble, Athens, Meigs and other counties to get vaccinated if eligible and wear masks to combat the spread of COVID-19.
The letter, whose signers include ...
PARKERSBURG — The deaths of five Mid-Ohio Valley residents were attributed to COVID-19 on Monday in the latest virus update from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources.
Three men from Wood County — ages 44, 57 and 75 — were listed among the 31 deaths since Friday’s ...
CHARLESTON — As lawmakers gather in Charleston for regularly scheduled legislative interim meetings Sunday, an advisory opinion from Attorney General Patrick Morrisey regarding the legalities of COVID-19 vaccine mandates and vaccine passports was the talk of the town.
Coming one day after ...
CHARLESTON — Gov. Jim Justice warned during Friday’s COVID-19 briefing that, as hospital beds fill up and health care resources are stretched thinner and thinner, “there will be ICU patients that will not have a bed.”
It’s already happened at least once.
During the briefing, James ...