Liz Beavers
Tribune Managing Editor
KEYSER - With 64 current active COVID-19 cases reported by the Mineral County Health Department Wednesday, the county is experiencing yet another uptick in virus cases.
Health department administrator A.Jay Root confirmed Thursday that Mineral County is seeing an increase in cases “across the board,” and the hike cannot necessarily be pinpointed to any one age group, event, or place.
Mostly, he feels, it’s because the county’s numbers had decreased for some time, moving Mineral County to the green level on the West Virginia DHHR COVID color-coded map.
Thursday, however, Mineral County had been moved up to gold and had been hovering between gold and orange all week. The surrounding counties - Hampshire, Hardy and Grant - are all also either gold or orange.
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Editorial: Another Texas power failure - cynicism of low expectations
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Maria Pineda watches a video of her 11-years-old son play in the snow for the first time in Conroe, Texas. He died of suspected hypothermia on Feb. 16.Gustavo Huerta, MBO / Associated Press
Texans can be thankful that the heartless mayor of Colorado City proved to be the outrageous exception rather than the rule during the deadly Lone Star deep freeze. While he was ranting in an unhinged Facebook screed that neither elected officials nor neighbors owed anybody anything during the most dangerous and debilitating snow and ice storm in decades, the (now former) mayor’s West Texas neighbors were helping each other.
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