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James Conley sits and receives his first dose of COVID-19 vaccine during Ohio Countyâs clinic at The Highlands.
WHEELING Though the words of their prayers may be different, local faith leaders speak with one voice when it comes to supporting the effort to get their congregants and friends vaccinated.
The Most Rev. Bishop Mark Brennan, the Rev. Darrell Cummings, and Rabbi Joshua Lief each weighed in on their roles in the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, each saying that they felt the weight of their role as community leaders.
Last week, both Gov. Jim Justice and Dr. Clay Marsh, the state’s coronavirus response coordinator, both called upon faith leaders throughout West Virginia to join the call of getting more people vaccinated.
West Virginia now has more than 500,000 residents fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
According to the Department of Health and Human Resources website Sunday, there are now 506,965 people in the state who now are fully vaccinated from the virus. That makes up 28.3% of the state’s population.
There also are now 680,678 people in the state who have at least one dose of COVID vaccine, making up 38% of the state’s population.
Three of four counties in the Northern Panhandle were yellow Sunday on the DHHR’s COVID-19 alert map. Hancock, Brooke and Marshall counties all were in the map’s second-safest category. The fourth, Ohio County, was green, the safest category on the map.
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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)
Brooke County went for gold Friday, but not in a way the county wanted.
The county fell to gold on the Department of Health and Human Resources COVID-19 alert map after sitting at yellow the last few days. Hancock and Marshall counties remained at yellow, the second-safest category on the DHHR map, while Ohio County stayed at green, the safest category.
The number of West Virginians who have received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine has now topped 675,000. According to the Department of Health and Human
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