“I’m afraid that while taking a victory lap, we discovered that there were more laps to go in the race.”

Ric Griffith, a Democratic member of the West Virginia House of Delegates, regarding the state’s sharp descent from being one of the best states for COVID-19 vaccination rates to the worst. Only about 49 percent of the state’s population has received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine. (Associated Press — October 29, 2021)