COVID-19 continues to surge both nationally, as well as in West Virginia. After technical difficulties with Monday’s reporting, the update provided by the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources on Tuesday, November 10 is startling.
The update reflects 16 additional coronavirus-related deaths. This information comes just one day after the DHHR revealed that 27 more deaths had been previously misreported by local health departments.
The last seven-days has been a particularly difficult stretch of the pandemic. Without the inclusion of the 27 misreported deaths, there have still been 47 over the course of the last week. This accounts for 8.60% of the total thus far. Adding the 27 back in brings this week’s death toll to 74, accounting for 13.53% of total deaths since the onset of the pandemic.
Among those reported deceased are a 96-year-old Boone County woman, a 75-year-old Boone County woman, a 92-year-old Wetzel County man, a 47-year-old Wetzel County man, a 79-year-old Boone County woman, a 65-year-old Preston County man, a 65-year-old Marshall County man, an 85-year-old Wetzel County man, a 79-year-old Fayette County woman, an 85-year-old Putnam County woman, an 81-year old Ohio County woman, a 78-year old Hancock County man, a 72-year old Raleigh County woman, a 76-year-old Kanawha County man, an 80-year-old Kanawha County woman and an 88-year-old Summers County woman. The total number of deaths in West Virginia related to COVID-19 is now 546.
In a statement posted on the DHHR website, Cabinet Secretary Bill J. Crouch said, “With a heavy heart, we share the solemn news of more lives lost to this pandemic. I urge all West Virginians to take an active role to reduce the spread of this virus throughout our communities.”
There have now been 29,316 cases of COVID-19 in West Virginia, 7,271 of which are currently active. The cumulative positivity-rate is 3.07% and the daily positivity-rate is 4.86%. 511 new cases have been identified through midnight on Monday, November 9. 6,868 laboratory tests were performed on Monday, bringing the seven-day average to 8,995. 861,038 tests have been conducted since the onset of the pandemic, accounting for 46.379% of the state’s population. At present, 280 individuals are hospitalized with the virus. 85 of them are receiving care in the ICU, while 29 are being treated with ventilators. 21,499 of those infected have reportedly now recovered.
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