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.
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ST. CLAIRSVILLE The number of seniors hospitalized with COVID-19 is declining nationwide, but health officials continue the drive to convince younger people to receive the vaccine.
When vaccinations were first made available, Ohio’s vulnerable senior citizens were prioritized along with front-line health care workers and other essential professionals. Belmont County Deputy Health Commissioner Robert Sproul had 800 second doses ready at Thursday’s vaccination clinic at the Ohio Valley Mall, and 300 first doses available. He mentioned, though, that the number of people choosing to be vaccinated with the first dose has decreased.
“We are seeing school-age kids and families around the county, non-specific in age or location, on the positives (test results),” he texted.
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