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.
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.
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Wheeling-Ohio County Health Administrator Howard Gamble discusses during Tuesday s Wheeling City Council meeting the need for residents to get vaccinated.
WHEELING Officials in Wheeling and Ohio County are urging citizens to resist “hesitancy” and get a COVID-19 vaccination as soon as possible so the community can safely return to normalcy.
Officials said hesitancy to get vaccinated will only cause the pandemic and related health and safety restrictions to continue being part of our lives. In the meantime, health officials say they’ll have to discard expired vaccine doses and business leaders say local shops continue to bear the brunt.
For The Times Leader
WHEELING Officials in Wheeling and Ohio County are urging citizens to resist “hesitancy” and get a COVID-19 vaccination as soon as possible so the community can safely return to normalcy.
Officials said hesitancy to get vaccinated will only cause the pandemic and related health and safety restrictions to continue being part of our lives. In the meantime, health officials say they’ll have to discard expired vaccine doses and business leaders say local shops continue to bear the brunt.
Wheeling City Council members passed a resolution Tuesday supporting efforts of the Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department and encouraging residents to receive the vaccine. Council also welcomed health department Administrator Howard Gamble and Wheeling Area Chamber of Commerce President Erikka Storch to speak in support of this issue.