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Campbell: Return to 5-day instruction going well in Monongalia County By
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. All county school systems in West Virginia have returned to five-days-a-week in-person schedules.
Eddie Campbell
Monongalia County School Superintendent Eddie Campbell said the return in his county has been surprisingly smooth.
“I anticipated it would go well but it has really gone well bringing our kids back in full-time,” Campbell said last week during an appearance WAJR Radio’s ‘Talk of the Town.”
For the past year the administration and Monongalia County Board of Education have made plans, changed plans, scrapped plans and ultimately executed plans. The plans have included specialized training in cleaning, PPE procurement, building layout and contact tracing/investigations. Campbell credits the staff and valuable consultation with the Monongalia County Health Department.
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A syringe access program participant is handed a bag of safe injection supplies.
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Sasha Crist stood in the waiting room of the Milan Puskar Health Right clinic in downtown Morgantown during a quick drop-in visit on a February afternoon. She was there to pick up safe injection supplies. No more than five minutes after she entered through the clinic’s glass door, she was sitting in a room with a social worker, firing off a list of needs.
Feb 21, 2021
MORGANTOWN West Virginia University on Saturday said it had confirmed three cases of the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7 in the Morgantown area, and two are WVU students.
Genetic sequencing of samples from the WVU Medicine testing program detected the B.1.1.7 variant in Morgantown campus test samples analyzed this week.
The variant is currently referred to as the UK variant. WVU said it is working closely with the Monongalia County Health Department in its case investigation and contact tracing.
It is believed that the three individuals who have tested positive for the variant are related to one another and have not visited the WVU campus during their infectious period.