CHARLESTON — A dozen youngsters had been hospitalized in West Virginia with COVID-19 as of Tuesday morning.
That’s twice as many as had been listed on Friday within the West Virginia Division of Well being and Human Assets’ every day replace on the standing of the virus within the state. 4 of them had been in intensive care models, with one on a ventilator.
Dr. Clay Marsh, the state’s coronavirus czar, stated in an emailed assertion Tuesday that there have been no hyperlinks discovered between the instances.
“We suspect this elevated quantity represents … omicron BA.5 impacting West Virginia residents, together with youngsters, paired with the decrease vaccination charges of kids each in West Virginia and nationally,” he stated.
BA.5 is a extra infectious variant of the virus and the dominant pressure nationally.
“We are going to proceed to carefully monitor hospitalizations and severity of sickness in our adult- and pediatric-aged residents and proceed to encourage that each one West Virginians keep updated with their vaccinations, together with boosters if indicated,” Marsh stated.
General hospitalizations rose to 337 from 324 Monday. Of these, 182 sufferers had been thought of vaccinated, that means they obtained the preliminary two Pfizer or Moderna doses or one Johnson and Johnson injection. It doesn’t take into consideration boosters.
There have been 49 sufferers with COVID in ICUs, 32 of them unvaccinated. Fourteen sufferers had been on ventilators, evenly break up between vaccinated and unvaccinated. There have been 48 ICU sufferers and 16 on ventilators Monday.
Tuesday’s replace included two deaths attributed to the virus, an 81-year-old Ohio County man and an 88-year-old Brooke County lady. That brings the state’s pandemic demise toll to 7,163.
“As this pandemic continues, it doesn’t get any simpler to report the deaths of our residents,” stated Invoice J. Crouch, DHHR Cupboard Secretary. “Our honest condolences are prolonged to those households.”
Statewide lively instances as of Tuesday totaled 3,111, a small lower for the second consecutive day.
Energetic case numbers across the Mid-Ohio Valley on Tuesday (Monday) had been: Calhoun, 9 (8); Doddridge, 7 (8); Gilmer, 9 (10); Jackson, 24 (23); Pleasants, 9 (13); Ritchie, 19 (20); Roane, 33 (32); Tyler, 8 (10); Wetzel, 15 (13); Wirt, 13 (13); and Wooden, 180 (191).
Forty-two of West Virginia’s 55 counties had been yellow on the County Alert System map. That’s the second-lowest of 5 classes measuring unfold of the virus primarily based on the variety of new instances per 100,000 folks within the earlier seven days or share of assessments coming again optimistic, whichever is decrease.
All Mid-Ohio Valley counties had been yellow besides Jackson, Pleasants and Wetzel, which had been inexperienced, the bottom degree. Boone County was the one one within the state at gold, the center of the dimensions.
