CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The state will likely set a peak in COVID-19 hospitalizations Thursday.
Gov. Jim Justice announced Wednesday there are currently 813 patients. The previous high was 818 patients that was set the first week of January.
Justice also said 252 patients were in ICU and 132 were being treated on ventilators, which are both pandemic highs.
The state Department of Health and Human Resources confirmed 18 deaths Wednesday including a 67-year old female from Berkeley County, a 46-year old male from Lewis County, a 57-year old female from Summers County, a 79-year old female from Putnam County, an 83-year old male from Grant County, a 102-year old male from Kanawha County, an 80-year old male from Berkeley County, a 73-year old male from Braxton County, a 62-year old male from Cabell County, a 79-year old male from Cabell County, a 66-year old male from Clay County, a 61-year old male from Raleigh County, an 86-year old male from Berkeley County, a 72-year old male from Kanawha County, a 69-year old female from Fayette County, a 59-year old female from Cabell County, a 71-year old female from Taylor County, and a 61-year old female from Logan County.
Total deaths are now at 3,169. Eighty-five of the deaths are from breakthrough deaths.
The DHHR said there were 1,352 new cases confirmed Wednesday. Active cases are now at 22,215. The daily positivity test rate is now at 18%.
Forty-four of the state’s 55 counties are now in the “red” high-spread category.
According to the dashboard, an average of 1,228 vaccines have been administered a day during the past seven days.
DHHR reports as of September 8, 2021, there have been 3,503,676 total confirmatory laboratory results received for #COVID19, with 201,660 total cases and 3,169 total deaths. https://t.co/xqoRBUoreP pic.twitter.com/95JEb58cG8
— WV Department of Health & Human Resources • ? (@WV_DHHR) September 8, 2021
Overall confirmed cases per county include: Barbour (2,096), Berkeley (14,994), Boone (2,624), Braxton (1,372), Brooke (2,527), Cabell (11,186), Calhoun (640), Clay (828), Doddridge (822), Fayette (4,464), Gilmer (1,052), Grant (1,574), Greenbrier (3,705), Hampshire (2,293), Hancock (3,167), Hardy (1,862), Harrison (7,529), Jackson (2,746), Jefferson (5,499), Kanawha (18,946), Lewis (1,943), Lincoln (1,979), Logan (4,030), Marion (5,649), Marshall (4,233), Mason (2,691), McDowell (2,050), Mercer (6,457), Mineral (3,478), Mingo (3,430), Monongalia (10,610), Monroe (1,658), Morgan (1,526), Nicholas (2,512), Ohio (5,038), Pendleton (895), Pleasants (1,123), Pocahontas (853), Preston (3,444), Putnam (6,546), Raleigh (8,740), Randolph (3,88