Dec 20, 2020
ST. CLAIRSVILLE — COVID-19 vaccinations were set to begin this morning for frontline workers at Wheeling Hospital and WVU Medicine Reynolds Memorial Hospital in Glen Dale, a massive step toward curbing the spread of a virus that claimed eight more Belmont County lives over the weekend.
The hospitals’ frontline workers represent the first part of the first phase in West Virginia’s vaccination rollout. They will receive the Pfizer version of the vaccine, which gained federal approval for emergency distribution Friday night.
Wheeling Hospital Assistant Vice President Tony Martinelli said hospital staff traveled to Morgantown on Monday to retrieve the first doses of the vaccine.