CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state Department of Health and Human Resources reported a pandemic high 781 residents hospitalized in the agency’s Thursday COVID-19 report.
The previous high for hospitalizations was 774 reached earlier this week. The DHHR said there are 206 patients being treated in intensive care, also a pandemic high.
The DHHR reported 1,636 new COVID-19 cases Thursday. The statewide daily positivity test rate is at 8.13%. Active cases in West Virginia are nearing 22,000 at 21,832.
.@WV_DHHR reports as of December 17, 2020, there have been 1,353,347 confirmatory laboratory results received for #COVID19, with 68,485 total cases and 1,071 deaths. https://t.co/6FYuTKymfv pic.twitter.com/mMhMuuIBZj
— WV Department of Health & Human Resources • ? (@WV_DHHR) December 17, 2020
Thirty-two deaths were added Thursday. There have now been 1,071 in West Virginia since the pandemic began.
New deaths included a 98-year old female from Barbour County, a 78-year old male from Barbour County, an 81-year old male from Monongalia County, a 92-year old female from Brooke County, a 105-year old female from Jefferson County, a 57-year old female from Ohio County, a 70-year old female from Marshall County, an 84-year old male from Boone County, a 92-year old female from Ohio County, an 85-year old male from Preston County, an 89-year old female from Marshall County, a 100-year old female from Boone County, a 74-year old female from Wood County, a 92-year old female from Brooke County, an 81-year old male from Brooke County, an 80-year old male from Marshall County, a 75-year old female from Hardy County, a 76-year old male from Mercer County, a 71-year old male from Lewis County, an 85-year old female from Preston County, a 92-year old female from Brooke County, a 76-year old male from Mercer County, a 59-year old female from Harrison County, a 66-year old female from Wood County, a 61-year old male from Wood County, a 76-year old male from Tucker County, a 60-year old female from Barbour County, a 93-year old female from Kanawha County, a 74-year old male from Monongalia County, a 90-year old female from Raleigh County, an 83-year old female from Raleigh County, and an 81-year old male from Raleigh County.
Several new counties have gone ‘red’ for high readings in both daily positivity and infection rates. Monongalia and Preston counties are two of 18 counties now ‘red.’
There’s only one ‘green’ county left in West Virginia on the latest COVID-19 alert map.
McDowell County is alone among the 55 counties when it comes to a low daily percent positivity rate. The county’s infection rate is in the ‘red’ category.
Overall confirmed cases per county include: Barbour (577), Berkeley (4,916), Boone (859), Braxton (190), Brooke (1,083), Cabell (4,221), Calhoun (112), Clay (216), Doddridge (183), Fayette (1,429), Gilmer (262), Grant (624), Greenbrier (1025), Hampshire (724), Hancock (1,441), Hardy (578), Harrison (2,205), Jackson (949), Jefferson (1,961), Kanawha (7,412), Lewis (369), Lincoln (596), Logan (1,292), Marion (1,347), Marshall (1,724), Mason (856), McDowell (773), Mercer (2,006), Mineral (1,941), Mingo (1,172), Monongalia (4,422), Monroe (505), Morgan (499), Nicholas (529), Ohio (2,102), Pendleton (202), Pleasants (228), Pocahontas (304), Preston (1,188), Putnam (2,560), Raleigh (2,212), Randolph (969), Ritchie (272), Roane (248), Summers (343), Taylor (530), Tucker (252), Tyler (254), Upshur (675), Wayne (1,417), Webster (114), Wetzel (549), Wirt (167), Wood (3,913), Wyoming (988).