ALAN OLSON Staff Writer
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Wheeling Hospital CEO Douglass Harrison speaks at a press conference announcing the formation of a long-term location for COVID-19 vaccination clinics.
TRIADELPHIA A building which once held a Michaels craft store will be the home of Ohio County’s COVID-19 vaccination clinics through the summer, if not longer.
The clinic is a joint effort between several health care providers in the area: Wheeling Hospital, Wheeling Health Right, the Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department, and the county Emergency Management Agency. The clinic, which is located adjacent to Bed, Bath and Beyond at the Highlands, will go into full operation Thursday. Doses of vaccine already were being doled out behind the press conference, held at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, catching up on doses due for higher education personnel.
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TRIADELPHIA A building which once held a Michaels craft store will be the home of Ohio County’s COVID-19 vaccination clinics through the summer, if not longer.
The clinic is a joint effort between several health care providers in the area: Wheeling Hospital, Wheeling Health Right, the Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department, and the county Emergency Management Agency. The clinic, which is located adjacent to Bed, Bath and Beyond at the Highlands, will go into full operation Thursday. Doses of vaccine already were being doled out behind the press conference, held at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, catching up on doses due for higher education personnel.
From STAFF REPORTS
The Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department reported two more COVID-related deaths in the county in its Tuesday night update. There now have been 64 such deaths in Ohio County since the pandemic began.
The department also reported six new positive COVID-19 cases, bringing that total to 3,574.
The Marshall County Health Department reported 14 new confirmed positive COVID cases and eight new probable cases. That brings that county’s totals to 2,215 confirmed cases, 590 probable cases, eight hospitalizations and 58 associated deaths.
Marshall County was the only county among the four in the Northern Panhandle to remain red, the highest-risk category, on the Department of Health and Human Resources Tuesday COVID-19 alert map. Hancock, Brooke and Ohio counties all were orange, a step above red on the category list.
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)
January was the deadliest month for West Virginia for COVID-19, while new numbers show that infections, hospitalizations, and deaths seem to be slowing down.
According to data from the Department of Health and Human Resources, 686 West Virginians died from the coronavirus in January, beating December’s total of 603 deaths by 14 percent. As of Jan. 31, the state lost 2,028 residents to COVID-19.
Three of the four Northern Panhandle counties will be able to send their high school students to in-person learning based on Sunday’s state COVID map, as the