Last week, I covered the final two days of permanent injunction hearings to block a June directive from the West Virginia Board of Education to county boards of education to continue to enforce the state’s compulsory vaccine law and not accept religious exemptions approved by the Department of Health and made possible by Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s January executive order.

I’m not going to rehash all of the particulars. You can read my coverage of both days. But I wanted to use my column to focus on last Thursday morning’s testimony by Dr. Mark McDaniel, the acting state health officer and commissioner of the Bureau of Public Health within the Department of Health.

Department of Health Secretary Dr. Arvin Singh announced the appointment of McDaniel on Aug. 21, with McDaniel starting his new

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