Health department changes focus to vaccine
Mineral Daily News-Tribune
Tribune Managing Editor
KEYSER - As they begin to prepare for the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine in Mineral County, the health department is now offering a different type of community testing for the virus.
For several weeks since the virus began to hit Mineral County especially hard, health department staff, along with Mineral County Schools, the Mineral County Technical Center Nursing Program, the National Guard and other volunteers worked together to offer free community drive-through testing weekly at the Tech Center and Mineral County Fairgrounds.
The task was a gargantuan one, and as the focus of the health department now needs to turn toward the upcoming distribution of the vaccine, administrator A.Jay Root said an alternate plan went into place this week.