Increased precaution encouraged to avoid post-holiday COVID spike
By Patrick Keck - pkeck@aimmediamidwest.com
Portsmouth Fire Chief Bill Raison, along with the city health, fire, and police departments, helped administer 160 vaccines outside the PCHD building on Monday to frontline workers. Photo courtesy of Larry Mullins.
SCIOTO Just two weeks ago, the Portsmouth City and Scioto County Health Departments reported its largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases.
That jump of 157 cases Dec. 11 brought the county’s cumulative total to more than 3,000 since the beginning of the pandemic and came after a similarly large increase of 130 the prior day.
Spikes of this magnitude often indicate a clearing of a backlog in tests, but still concerning said PCHD Epidemiologist Molly Davis. That concern was shared by many in the community, some fearing that cases would reach towering heights.
PINEY FLATS, TN - Edwin Dennis Lindamood, age 82 of Piney Flats TN went home to be with his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Thursday, December 10, 2020. He was born on September 9, 1938, to the late Dennis and Ruby Lindamood. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his loving wife Janie Lindamood and his son David Lindamood. He was a graduate of Bluff City High School. He was a member of Enterprise Methodist Church in Piney Flats, TN.
Ed had many passions, one of which was welding. He was a Master Welder by trade for more than 50+ years and loved to teach others how to weld. He also loved old cars, especially Hudsons, and loved to get his 1937 Hudson Terraplane out any chance he had and just drive to nowhere in particular. He loved to go to car shows and hardly ever missed the car shows in Pigeon Forge and Elizabethton TN. He also loved going to the annual farm show each year in Louisville KY with all his farm show buddies and his sons. He loved to read, just about a