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COVID-19: The Latest

Teachers’ union pushes for distance learning in West Virginia

CHARLESTON — Teachers and school administrators who are members of the West Virginia Education Association are calling for all county school systems in West Virginia to start with distance learning on Sept. 8. due to coronavirus concerns. Dale Lee, president of the Education Association, ...

Companies rush coronavirus antibody drug tests

With a coronavirus vaccine still months off, companies are rushing to test what may be the next best thing: drugs that deliver antibodies to fight the virus right away, without having to train the immune system to make them. Antibodies are proteins the body makes when an infection occurs; ...

West Virginia halts nursing home visitation

CHARLESTON — After seeing an increase in deaths tied to outbreaks in nursing homes across the state, West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice said visitations to nursing homes would need to stop once again. Speaking Wednesday during his coronavirus briefing from the Capitol, Justice said visitations ...

Officials vow safe return to school

CHARLESTON — As the Sept. 8 date for schools across West Virginia to start up after closing for the coronavirus pandemic, the West Virginia Board of Education Wednesday stated schools will not reopen unless it is safe. The board of education met Wednesday for its monthly meeting at the ...

Vaccine push as much about rivalries as science

WASHINGTON (AP) — No, Russia isn’t having a Sputnik moment. The announcement Tuesday by Russian President Vladimir Putin that his country was the first to approve a coronavirus vaccine did not provoke the awe and wonder of the Soviet Union’s launch of the first satellite into orbit in ...