It has among the lowest vaccination rates of any state, with just under 48 percent of its adult population fully vaccinated.
West Virginia set two new records in the past week for daily COVID-19 cases, as Republican Governor Jim Justice warned the state remains"overwhelmingly inundated" with hospitalized patients.
By Saturday, West Virginia's health department tallied a total of 7,849 new cases over the past six days, which already passed the seven-day total from the previous week. Across the state, the number of active coronavirus cases has more than doubled in the past three weeks, jumping up to 22,000, according to the AP.with new COVID patients.
West Virginia broke a record for daily new COVID-19 cases twice in one week. Here, an individual waits to get vaccinated from a member of the National Guard on March 26 on the grounds of the Toyota plant in Buffalo, West Virginia."We've reached that level of hospital bed capacity, taken up by people infected with COVID-19, about 100 days quicker than we did during our last surge in December 2020," Dr. Marsh said during a press briefing.