West Virginia leads in COVID vaccinations with this simple solution
West Virginians are phoning it in when it comes to COVID vaccinations — and their numbers look good.
Despite leading the nation in drug overdoses, diabetes and deaths by accident, the Mountain State is peaking when it comes to getting shots into the arms of its 1.8 million citizens, according to NPR. And the state in part credits its telephone hotline for coming to the aid of locals who either don’t have access to the internet or don’t know how to use it.
Health officials in West Virginia became concerned that they were facing a communications problem in December after seeing scores of elderly folks standing outside a health department building hours before vaccinations were available there because they’d gotten word from the governor that citizens 80 and older were eligible for shots.