By March 16, 2021 - 11:01 am CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The past year in the coronavirus pandemic has been a year of constant evolution for health department across West Virginia. “In the beginning, it was monitoring, then we were doing surveillance and then testing and then we moved to vaccination,” said Howard Gamble, administrator for the Wheeling-Ohio County Health Department. Howard Gamble “I think every time we moved to a different phase we looked back and said, ‘How has this gone? How did we make improvements? How can we make improvements?'” Tuesday marked one year since Governor Jim Justice declared a State of Emergency for all 55 West Virginia counties because of the pandemic.