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Trooper Stephen Williams of the St. Clairsville post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol prepares to perform traffic enforcement with a radar gun. The patrol will be out in force on New Year’s Eve, which is Thursday, since traffic is expected to be high despite the coronavirus pandemic.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE The Ohio State Highway Patrol is warning people against drinking and driving on New Year’s Eve this Thursday.
Lt. Maurice Waddell said the COVID-19 pandemic has not significantly reduced traffic or changed driving habits. Waddell did not speculate if traffic volume or drinking and driving would change around the coming holiday or if people will choose to indulge after the lengthy pandemic and social distancing.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE People across the region are being vaccinated against the coronavirus, with a focus on health and emergency response personnel.
Belmont County Deputy Health Commissioner Robert Sproul said his office has been administering the 300 COVID-19 vaccines received last week and that 100 more doses arrived Monday.
WVU Medicine Barnesville Hospital, Walgreens and CVS pharmacies are awaiting doses.
“Barnesville did not get vaccinations so we had to do their staff,” Sproul said.
Eastern Ohio agencies are receiving the Moderna version of the vaccine, which does not require extreme cold storage. Those inoculated will have a second dose in about 28 days.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE Now that Belmont County has begun to receive a vaccine for the COVID-19 pandemic, the health department is scheduling shots.
“Our director of nursing, she is reaching out to set up times to get them vaccinated,” Belmont County Deputy Health Director Robert Sproul said. He outlined this and other activities Wednesday during his weekly update to the county commissioners.
Belmont County has received 300 doses of the Moderna version of the vaccine, which does not require the ultra-cold storage not available in Belmont County. His office will be vaccinating home health workers, hospice workers, emergency medical service responders, primary care practitioners, free-standing emergency department employees, urgent care sites, pharmacy workers, dialysis and dental providers and mobile unit practitioners.
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File Photo â Belmont County Deputy Health Director Robert Sproul reports on the COVID-19 pandemic. On Tuesday, he announced his office has received its first 300 doses of vaccine.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE Belmont County’s health department has received its first shipment of the Moderna version of COVID-19 vaccine, which does not require deep-cold storage. Belmont County Deputy Health Director Robert Sproul said Tuesday that 300 doses are ready.
“My director of nursing has started contacting agencies,” Sproul said in a text.
In a later interview, Sproul said Barnesville Hospital, CVS and Walgreens are also getting their own shipments.
“We’re all tasked with getting certain groups of people,” Sproul said, adding the CVS and Walgreens responsible for administering the vaccine at nursing homes and congregate setting facilities, while the hospital is tasked with vaccinating health workers.
Dec 20, 2020
ST. CLAIRSVILLE COVID-19 vaccinations were set to begin this morning for frontline workers at Wheeling Hospital and WVU Medicine Reynolds Memorial Hospital in Glen Dale, a massive step toward curbing the spread of a virus that claimed eight more Belmont County lives over the weekend.
The hospitals’ frontline workers represent the first part of the first phase in West Virginia’s vaccination rollout. They will receive the Pfizer version of the vaccine, which gained federal approval for emergency distribution Friday night.
Wheeling Hospital Assistant Vice President Tony Martinelli said hospital staff traveled to Morgantown on Monday to retrieve the first doses of the vaccine.