Times Leader Staff Writer
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 Belmont County ranks third in the state in COVID-19 occurrence rate, Gov. Mike DeWine announced Monday.
The governor shared data that indicate Belmont County has 220.9 cases per 100,000 residents, with 148 cases among its 67,006 residents. The data is collected over a two-week period, and it was current as of April 28. Of the Ohio’s 88 counties, only Lucas and Cuyahoga have higher occurrence rates, at 270.1 and 229.6 per 100,000, respectively.
The news came as the Belmont County Health Department said its COVID-19 vaccination outreach is moving to a new set of schools this week and providing doses to homebound residents in Bellaire. Following last week’s vaccination clinics in the St. Clairsville-Richland City and Shadyside Local school districts and at St. John Central Academy in Bellaire, Deputy Health Commissioner Robert Sproul said there will be more school and apartment complex clinics this week, along with the normal weekly cl