MOUNDSVILLE -- The second and final vaccination clinic for Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel and Tyler counties will occur Friday, and applicants will need to pick up the phone to schedule an appointment, rather than going through the state’s newly minted online registry. The clinic will take place ...
Ohio County was orange on the Department of Health and Human Resources COVID alert map Monday, which will allow in-person learning to resume at Wheeling Park High School. According to a message posted on the school district's Facebook page, students in Group B -- those with last names ...
We field calls every day from local residents eager to get the COVID-19 vaccine, and almost all of the inquiries deal with frustration in getting through on the phone banks set up by local county health departments for vaccine clinics. We aren’t going to directly fault our local public health officials for this, but it is 2021, after all. There should be a registration mechanism that allows residents to sign up for their shot either by phone or online, and then to get a call when their dose is ready. It’s simple. West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice announced Thursday that the state ...
The health departments of Marshall County, Wheeling-Ohio County and Wetzel/Tyler County will hold a regional COVID-19 vaccination clinic Friday at the Marshall County Fairgrounds. The region is scheduled to receive 400 doses of the Moderna vaccine for the clinic, which will be held from 8 ...
For many West Virginia students in grades pre-kindergarten through eighth, today will be like the first day of school all over again, as they return to the classroom following an extended, several-month remote learning break due to COVID-19. Ohio and Marshall counties, for example, have not had students in class since the early part of October. Youngsters that have spent the past three months learning from home will be more than eager to see their classmates as they walk through the halls. They also will benefit from seeing their teachers and returning to an in-person learning ...
The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department said there were 19 new cases of COVID-19 Saturday in the county. That brings the total cases to 3,195 with 57 deaths in Ohio County. Meanwhile, for the first time in weeks, Ohio County moved from the red designation on the state Department of ...
