PARKERSBURG — The Wood County Board of Education Tuesday discussed quarantines, out-of-state tuition rates and Criss Elementary School. Criss received recognition as a National Blue Ribbon School for 2021. “We have had back-to-back-to-back, National Blue Ribbon Schools in Wood County, ...
From staff reports PARKERSBURG — After weeks of rising COVID-19 infections that forced its schools to temporarily switch to remote learning, Calhoun County is back in the green. The county moved to green, the color designating the lowest tier on West Virginia’s County Alert System map, as of Tuesday morning’s update from the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. The map gauges the spread of COVID based on the lower of two metrics: percentage of COVID tests coming back positive and new cases per 100,000 people over a 14-day period. While the county is still ...
CHARLESTON — West Virginia’s number of active COVID-19 cases continued their downward trajectory, with hospitalizations beginning to follow suit. “The numbers are absolutely reflective of the fact that we’re going through the peak, and it looks like we’re starting to turn down,” ...
PARKERSBURG — Area health departments are gearing up to administer Pfizer vaccine booster shots as the COVID-19 pandemic claimed perhaps its youngest victim in the area. A 30-year-old Wood County man was among 45 deaths reported Monday by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. He passed away Friday, said Carrie Brainard, threat preparedness coordinator with the Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department. The department was unable to confirm whether he had been vaccinated and they were not made aware of any underlying health conditions, she said. The individual is ...
CHARLESTON — The number of hospitalized patients who were vaccinated for the COVID-19 coronavirus has been creeping upward while West Virginia begun giving widespread third doses Friday to bolster protection against the virus, state officials said. The rise in vaccinated patients in hospitals indicates the urgent need for the third vaccine booster shots, Dr. Clay Marsh, coronavirus czar, said during the governor’s Friday pandemic briefing. About 20 percent of those hospitalized from complications of the virus are vaccinated patients, up from about 13 percent several weeks ago, ...
CHARLESTON — Active virus cases statewide increased a little more than a thousand between Thursday’s and Friday’s pandemic report by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources. The state reported 16,223 active cases on Friday, up from the 15,177 active cases on Thursday. The number of active cases has dropped since Sept. 17 when a pandemic high of 29,744 was recorded, surpassing the previous high in of 29,257 in January. Health officials believe the state is nearing the peak of the latest surge fueled by the unvaccinated and the more-infectious delta variant of ...
