Forty-one of West Virginia’s 55 counties will be on remote learning this week, according to Saturday’s West Virginia Department of Education COVID-19 school re-entry map. That list of remote learning counties includes many of the state’s largest school districts, as Kanawha, Cabell, ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine will begin arriving in states Monday morning, U.S. officials said Saturday, after the government gave the final go-ahead to the shots needed to end an outbreak that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans. Trucks will roll out Sunday ...
THREE THINGS TO KNOW TODAY — The nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine will begin arriving in states Monday morning, U.S. officials said. The government on Friday gave the final go-ahead to the shots needed to end an outbreak that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans. — The U.S. hit ...
WHEELING — While front-line health care workers are scheduled to receive the first of the first wave of COVID-19 vaccines — as the Food and Drug Administration approved the Pfizer vaccine Friday night — it’s an open question as to what order the rest of society will be inoculated ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. gave the final go-ahead Friday to the nation’s first COVID-19 vaccine, marking what could be the beginning of the end of an outbreak that has killed nearly 300,000 Americans. Shots for health workers and nursing home residents are expected to begin in the coming days after the Food and Drug Administration authorized an emergency rollout of what promises to be a strongly protective vaccine from Pfizer Inc. and its German partner BioNTech. Initial doses are scarce and rationed as the U.S. joins Britain and several other countries in scrambling to ...
Hancock County earned a dubious distinction when the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources daily COVID-19 alert map was released Friday morning. Hancock had the highest infection rate of any of West Virginia’s 55 counties. Its rate was 158.68 cases per 100,000 residents. The next highest was Mineral County at 151.53. Three of the four counties in the Northern Panhandle — Hancock, Brooke and Marshall — remained in “red” on Friday’s state alert map. Ohio County was in “orange,” though its percent positivity had risen again after hovering near the ...
