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Photo Provided â National Guard members and Moundsville Pharmacy pharmacist Jason Turner unload Moderna vaccines. The vaccines were given to residents and staff of Good Shepherd Nursing Home and Welty Home in Wheeling.
WHEELING As week three of the COVID-19 vaccine rolls on to close out 2020, nursing homes and other long-term care facilities are distributing the vaccine to their staff and residents.
At the Good Shepherd Nursing Home and Welty Home, in Wheeling, Assistant Administrator Morgan Murphy reported a 76-percent vaccination rate among staff and residents, representing a total of just under 400 people.
Murphy said the remaining 24 percent largely consisted of staff who declined to receive the vaccine voluntarily, in addition to new hires who were not eligible to be inoculated. However, those who declined will be able to get their first dose once it comes time for those who did receive it to get their second dose.
From STAFF REPORTS
All four Northern Panhandle counties were in “red” on the state’s Sunday COVID alert map. They had plenty of company.
Hancock, Brooke, Ohio and Marshall counties were among 32 “red” counties on the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources map.
Hancock and Brooke were among five counties in the state with an infection rate of at least 100 cases per 100,000 residents. Hancock had an infection rate of 118.51 cases per 100,000 residents and a percent positivity of 16.43.
Brooke had an infection rate of 115.25 and a percent positivity of 16.36.
Ohio County had an infection rate of 79.34 cases per 100,000 and a percent positivity of 11.84, while Marshall County had an infection rate of 61.76 and a percent positivity of 10.95.
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