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ST. CLAIRSVILLE Comparatively few people are electing to receive COVID-19 vaccinations compared to earlier this year, but the Belmont County Health Department continues to administer shots.
“We’re definitely seeing less and less people each week,” Linda Mehl, department director of nursing, said. “This week we only had about 250 or so scheduled (for second doses) and we were doing walk-ins all afternoon, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. They’re kind of trickling in.”
The Pfizer BioNTech and Moderna versions of the vaccine each require two doses administered about a month apart.
“It’s definitely a lot less than we’ve done the past several weeks, but I don’t think we’re unique in that,” Mehl said.
Times Leader Staff Writer
ST. CLAIRSVILLE Fewer people are electing to be vaccinated against COVID-19, but doses are still available.
Belmont County Deputy Health Commissioner Robert Sproul said people vaccinated in Belmont County are overwhelmingly senior citizens who are more vulnerable to death or long-term conditions from the coronavirus. Sproul said a relatively high number of younger people who are more active socially, and thus more likely to spread the virus, also have received the shots.
This leaves a less-motivated middle demographic.
“On May 3 we had 24 positives. Nobody was under the age of 16, and we only had three above age 60 that were positives. The rest of them were in the middle, with the average age of about 42.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE Belmont County Deputy Health Commissioner Robert Sproul updated the county Board of Commissioners on Wednesday about COVID-19 infections an
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Belmont County Health Department registered nurses Nicky Goodson, left, and Kari Dietrich, right, vaccinate St. Clairsville High School sophomore Caleb Romanek and others Tuesday against COVID-19.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE Students and staff in the St. Clairsville-Richland City School District and members of the community received COVID-19 vaccinations Tuesday at the district campus in preparation for what many hope will be an active summer.
Meanwhile, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced that people who have been vaccinated do not need to quarantine if they contact an infected person.
Belmont County Deputy Health Commissioner Robert Sproul said this takes effect two weeks after the second shot.
BELLAIRE Southeast Healthcare administered COVID-19 vaccinations to riverside residents Monday at the Salvation Army.
By noon, more than 30 people were vaccinated with the Moderna version. The prior clinic April 14 vaccinated more than 70 people with a first dose. A second-dose clinic is scheduled within 28 days.
“We’ve had quite a few walk-ins today,” Gayle Westfall, nursing supervisor with Southeast, said.
“I think there’s so many people out there giving the vaccine these days,” Westfall said, adding that news of blood-clotting incidents and deaths among a few of the more than 6 million nationwide recipients of the Johnson & Johnson version of the vaccine may discourage some. After study, use of Johnson & Johnson has resumed.