Ranson Civic Center houses Jefferson County s COVID-19 vaccine site.
West Virginia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout is being praised as one of the best, not just in the country, but in the world. While it’s true that a fifth of West Virginians have already gotten their first dose, in many counties, residents are not getting vaccinated at those same rates.
“It just seemed like nobody that I knew over in the 65, or over 70 age group was being called,” said 70-year-old Katherine Austin.
She lives in Harper s Ferry in the Eastern Panhandle. And she’s nervous. She has a heart condition and signed up for the vaccine as soon as she could. But the clinics were full, or nonexistent.
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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. â More nursing home patients have died as a result of COVID-19 outbreaks at two facilities in Berkeley and Jefferson counties, according to a spokeswoman for the company that owns the nursing homes.
By Thursday, five residents had died at Care Haven Center, on W.Va. 9 east of Martinsburg, and four had died at Shenandoah Center in Charles Town, Lori Mayer with Genesis HealthCare wrote in an email.
Care Haven Center had 37 active resident cases while 16 residents had recovered, she said. Shenandoah Center had one active resident case while 15 residents had recovered.
The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources defines an active outbreak as laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases detected within 14 days of each other in a nursing home. An outbreak is considered active until one incubation period (14 days) has passed without additional cases of COVID-19 being identified.Â