From Staff Reports
This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)
Marshall County found itself, after days in pretty good shape, in the second-highest-risk category Sunday on the state’s COVID-19 alert map.
Marshall County was orange on the Department of Health and Human Resources alert map, one of 12 orange counties on the Sunday map. Wirt and Nicholas counties were red, the highest-risk category, while 12 more were gold, eight more were yellow and 21 were green.
From Staff Reports
This undated electron microscope image made available by the U.S. National Institutes of Health in February 2020 shows the Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus causes COVID-19. The sample was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (NIAID-RML via AP)
Two of the Northern Panhandle’s four counties were right where they wanted to be on Friday’s state COVID-19 alert map sitting in the map’s safest category.
Hancock and Ohio counties both were green, the safest category on the Department of Health and Human Resources alert map. Brooke County was yellow, the second-safest category, and Marshall County was gold, a rung below yellow on the chart.
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Photo by Scott McCloskey
Carol Moscato, a retired registered nurse, speaks with Terry Kiger of Wheeling, at The Highlands COVID-19 vaccination clinic Wednesday. The county is planning to scale back on the number of days it will vaccinate adults and focus more on vaccinating youths if the CDC decides to lower the age limit for the Pfizer vaccine to 12.
WHEELING Ohio County officials are making plans to scale back COVID vaccination opportunities for adults, and to focus instead on inoculating school-age youths.
The move comes as federal officials indicate they could move as soon as next week to authorize Pfizer-brand COVID vaccinations as safe for children as young as 12. Presently the vaccine is available only to those age 16 or older.
From Staff Reports
The Northern Panhandle’s bouncing through the spectrum of the colors on West Virginia’s COVID alert map continued Wednesday, as Ohio County climbed back into the map’s safest category.
Ohio County returned to green on the Department of Health and Human Resources map Wednesday, while Hancock and Brooke counties were in yellow, the second-safest category, and Marshall County was gold, a rung under yellow on the map. All four counties were green on Sunday’s DHHR map.
Hancock County had an infection rate of 19.83 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 3.93. Brooke County had an infection rate of 17.58 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 3.07.
From STAFF REPORTS
The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department reported one new COVID-19-related death in its Tuesday night update, the 88th such death in the county since the pandemic began.
That also marked the third COVID-related death the county had reported since last Wednesday. The department also announced seven new positive COVID-19 cases in the county, which brought that total to 4,354.
The Marshall County Health Department reported three new confirmed positive COVID-19 cases and one new probable case in its Tuesday evening update. The department is sending people to the DHHR website for its latest totals, which were 2,484 confirmed positive cases, 901 probable cases and 76 related deaths.