CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Hospitalizations decreased to its lowest level since Christmas Day in COVID-19 case information released Friday by the state Department of Health and Human Resources.
The agency reported 717 virus patients being treated in hospitals across the state, the lowest mark since a patient count of 686 on Christmas Day. Hospitalizations reached a high of 818 on Jan. 5. Patients being treated in intensive care units also is going down. It reached a high of 219 on Jan. 6. There were 195 patients in ICU in Friday’s report.
West Virginia currently has the lowest Rt Value in the nation at .90. The Rt Value is the estimated rate of spread of the virus.
The DHHR did report 31 additional deaths Friday including an 86-year old female from Greenbrier County, an 86-year old female from Monongalia County, a 73-year old male from Marion County, a 90-year old female from Mercer County, an 87-year old female from Mercer County, a 67-year old male from Upshur County, a 92-year old male from Ohio County, a 72-year old male from Pleasants County, a 93-year old female from Wood County, a 94-year old female from Cabell County, a 78-year old female from Gilmer County, a 90-year old female from Wood County, a 47-year old female from Raleigh County, a 91-year old female from Wood County, a 72-year old male from Wood County, a 72-year old male from Wetzel County, an 81-year old male from Berkeley County, a 77-year old female from Lewis County, a 95-year old female from Ohio County, an 89-year old male from Wood County, a 95-year old male from Cabell County, a 78-year old male from Kanawha County, an 82-year old male from Tucker County, a 98-year old female from Wood County, a 71-year old male from Logan County, a 93-year old female from Greenbrier County, an 84-year old female from Kanawha County, an 88-year old male from Pleasants County, a 52-year old male from Marion County, an 80-year old male from Putnam County, and an 80-year old female from Putnam County.
There have been 1,733 COVID-19 deaths in the state since the pandemic began.
Thirty-three counties remained in red on Friday’s daily alert map. Clay County moved to yellow on Friday’s map. The only county with a spread level marked in that category.
The state reported Friday that more than 117,000 state residents have received the initial round of COVID-19 vaccinations. The state reports 21,599 residents have received both shots.
@WV_DHHR reports as of January 15, 2021, there have been 1,711,796 total confirmatory laboratory results received for COVID-19, with 106,649 total cases and 1,733 total deaths. https://t.co/W8DgKTejgg pic.twitter.com/cnTQpX7Pyb
— WV Department of Health & Human Resources • ? (@WV_DHHR) January 15, 2021
Overall COVID-19 cases per county include: Barbour (1,005), Berkeley (7,839), Boone (1,266), Braxton (666), Brooke (1,719), Cabell (6,319), Calhoun (185), Clay (295), Doddridge (334), Fayette (2,116), Gilmer (514), Grant (910), Greenbrier (1,978), Hampshire (1,209), Hancock (2,265), Hardy (1,048), Harrison (3,862), Jackson (1,442), Jefferson (2,937), Kanawha (10,094), Lewis (705), Lincoln (997), Logan (2,073), Marion (2,714), Marshall (2,492), Mason (1,307), McDowell (1,125), Mercer (3,616), Mineral (2,291), Mingo (1,703), Monongalia (6,311), Monroe (784), Morgan (800), Nicholas (893), Ohio (2,991), Pendleton (430), Pleasants (704), Pocahontas (464), Preston (2,167), Putnam (3,444), Raleigh (3,505), Randolph (1,844), Ritchie (488), Roane (391), Summers (610), Taylor (881), Tucker (409), Tyler (472), Upshur (1,237), Wayne (2,056), Webster (216), Wetzel (868), Wirt (284), Wood (5,993), Wyoming (1,381).