CHARLESTON — COVID-related hospitalizations have increased across the country, but not yet in West Virginia, state officials said Wednesday. “We have not seen a lot of COVID-related hospitalizations here in West Virginia,” state Health Officer Dr. Matthew Christiansen ...
CHARLESTON — The death toll from the COVID-19 coronavirus in West Virginia has reached 8,170 deaths, the Department of Health and Human Resources reported Wednesday. The state in its weekly pandemic report said another three deaths were confirmed in the last week. Deaths confirmed were a 70-year-old woman from Kanawha County, a 96-year-old woman from Kanawha County and an 83-year-old man from Marion County. More than 1.1 million people have died from the virus in the United States since the virus began more than three years ago, according to the World Health Organization. Pandemic ...
CHARLESTON — A Davisville man was put on probation Thursday for unlawfully obtaining unemployment benefits, including supplementary funds provided by the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation Program of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act. Daniel Satow, 33, of ...
CHARLESTON — Four people died from the COVID-19 coronavirus in West Virginia in the last week, the Department of Health and Human Resources said. The department in Wednesday morning’s weekly COVID-19 update reported the deaths of an 82-year-old man from Cabell County, a 94-year-old man from Brooke County, a 66-year-old woman from Kanawha County and a 61-year-old man from Monongalia County. Updates went to once a week on Wednesday mornings with the end of the federal COVID-19 health emergency in May. The death count since the pandemic started more than three years ago was at 8,167 ...
Here we go again: COVID-19 hospital admissions have inched upward in the United States since early July in a small-scale echo of the three previous summers. With an updated vaccine still months away, this summer bump in new hospitalizations might be concerning, but the number of patients is ...
CHARLESTON — The first death attributed to the COVID-19 coronavirus in three weeks in West Virginia was reported Wednesday by the Department of Health and Human Resources. The department reported the death of a 90-year-old woman from Putnam County. It was the first death reported by the state since the department’s July 19 pandemic update. Seven people were reported as COVID fatalities the week before. The death count since the pandemic started was at 8,164 residents Wednesday in West Virginia, according to the department. The department recommends those 6 months and older stay ...
