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COVID-19 hospitalizations hit an all-time high in West Virginia on Wednesday

Brian Bergstrom
January 26, 2022

The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced Wednesday that 18,149 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in the Mountain State. That’s a decrease of 1,128 since the last report.

Locally, COVID-19 cases are active in Upshur (164), Barbour (97), Lewis (83), Randolph (180) and Webster (65) counties. In Upshur County, that’s a decrease of eight active cases in the last 24 hours.

Twenty-four additional deaths have been attributed to the disease, according to the DHHR – a 48-year old male from Mercer County, a 78-year old male from Barbour County, an 86-year old female from Boone County, a 74-year old male from Lincoln County, a 67-year old male from Cabell County, a 65-year old male from Kanawha County, a 90-year old female from Cabell County, a 70-year old female from Mercer County, a 62-year old female from Fayette County, a 74-year old male from Mercer County, an 86-year old female from Braxton County, a 79-year old male from Cabell County, an 80-year old female from Ritchie County, a 59-year old female from Wood County, a 74-year old male from Lincoln County, a 66-year old female from Mercer County, an 84-year old male from Putnam County, a 65-year old female from Lincoln County, a 77-year old male from Berkeley County, a 75-year old female from Wetzel County, a 71-year old male from Harrison County, a 91-year old female from Kanawha County, an 86-year old female from Ohio County, and a 66-year old male from Barbour County.

“The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of January 26, 2022, there are currently 18,149 active COVID-19 cases statewide. There have been 24 deaths reported since the last report, with a total of 5,674 deaths attributed to COVID-19,” according to a press release.

About 1,043 residents are hospitalized with the virus (68% unvaccinated, 32% vaccinated), with 225 currently in intensive care (83% unvaccinated, 17% vaccinated) and 107 on a ventilator (94% unvaccinated, 6% vaccinated). The daily percent positive was 22.01%.

A total of 948,218 people have been vaccinated for COVID-19 in West Virginia, the DHHR said. That’s about 53% of the state. Of those, 376,076 have received their booster dose.

CURRENT ACTIVE CASES PER COUNTY: Barbour (97), Berkeley (830), Boone (286), Braxton (67), Brooke (102), Cabell (1,199), Calhoun (81), Clay (62), Doddridge (105), Fayette (638), Gilmer (73), Grant (129), Greenbrier (357), Hampshire (162), Hancock (192), Hardy (120), Harrison (567), Jackson (127), Jefferson (346), Kanawha (2,500), Lewis (83), Lincoln (241), Logan (428), Marion (526), Marshall (258), Mason (287), McDowell (189), Mercer (661), Mineral (233), Mingo (238), Monongalia (1,079), Monroe (184), Morgan (104), Nicholas (322), Ohio (315), Pendleton (65), Pleasants (51), Pocahontas (36), Preston (295), Putnam (706), Raleigh (993), Randolph (180), Ritchie (80), Roane (141), Summers (145), Taylor (160), Tucker (18), Tyler (89), Upshur (164), Wayne (441), Webster (65), Wetzel (130), Wirt (58), Wood (756), Wyoming (388).