Ohio County Reports 65th COVID-19 Death

The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department reported another COVID-19-related death in its Friday night update, the 65th such death in the county since the pandemic began. The county also announced 15 new COVID cases, bringing that total to 3,679. The Marshall County Health Department had not ...

Marshall County Schools Dealing With Lack Of Hands-On Time

The COVID-19 pandemic has kept students from completing hands-on learning, but the class work continues regardless. At Tuesday’s Board of Education meeting, Marshall County’s CTE and Adult Education Director Scott Varner spoke to the board regarding the recent landscape of its programs. Varner lamented that it had been difficult to provide quality instruction in many technical and career programs online, when they rely on more hands-on instruction methods. In the interim, Varner said the programs have taken the time to get students certified through online testing while biding ...

Biden Says U.S. Will Secure 600M COVID-19 Vaccine Doses by July

President Joe Biden said Thursday that the U.S. will have enough supply of the COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the summer to inoculate 300 million Americans. Biden made the announcement at the sprawling National Institutes of Health complex just outside Washington as he visited some of the ...

COVID-19 Vaccine Shipments to West Virginia About To Get Another Boost

CHARLESTON — West Virginia will receive a higher allotment of vaccine through the Federal Pharmacy Program, according to Gov. Jim Justice. The state will receive 7,300 doses, higher than the 5,800 announced on Monday through the federal program with Walgreens for older residents and ...

WHO and Chinese officials: Coronavirus unlikely to have leaked from China lab

By EMILY WANG FUJIYAMA Associated Press WUHAN, China (AP) — The coronavirus most likely first appeared in humans after jumping from an animal, a team of international and Chinese scientists looking for the origins of COVID-19 said Tuesday, dismissing as unlikely an alternate theory that ...