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Belmont County Deputy Health Commissioner Robert Sproul reports on COVID-19 cases and vaccinations. The work of contact-tracing those who may have been in contact with infected people will soon be taken over by the state.
ST. CLAIRSVILLE The Belmont County Health Department is receiving some state aid in contact tracing, which should free up staff for other duties.
Belmont County Deputy Health Commissioner Robert Sproul said Tuesday he had spoken with the state health department on details of contact tracing going forward. Residents who have been in contact with a person who has tested positive for COVID-19 will now be notified by a communications company. Public Consulting Group is contracting with the Ohio Department of Health to do contact tracing, Sproul said in a text message.
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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.
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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.