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Active COVID-19 cases decline, but hospitalizations hit record high in West Virginia

Brian Bergstrom
February 1, 2022

The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources announced Tuesday that 12,843 cases of COVID-19 are currently active in the Mountain State. That’s a decrease of 2,647 since the last report.

Locally, COVID-19 cases are active in Upshur (132), Barbour (126), Lewis (99), Randolph (153) and Webster (55) counties. In Upshur County, that’s a decrease of 19 active cases in the last 24 hours.

Fifteen additional deaths have been attributed to the disease, according to the DHHR – an 87-year old male from Kanawha County, an 80-year old male from Kanawha County, a 93-year old male from Kanawha County, an 82-year old female from Jefferson County, an 84-year old female from Berkeley County, an 89-year old male from Raleigh County, a 92-year old male from Brooke County, an 81-year old female from Wood County, a 99-year old male from Brooke County, a 93-year old female from Berkeley County, a 104-year old female from Kanawha County, a 62-year old female from Berkeley County, a 71-year old male from Monroe County, an 81-year old female from Kanawha County, and a 70-year old female from Cabell County.

“The West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) reports as of February 1, 2022, there are currently 12,843 active COVID-19 cases statewide. There have been 15 deaths reported since the last report, with a total of 5,778 deaths attributed to COVID-19,” according to a press release.

About 1,100 residents are hospitalized with the virus (68% unvaccinated, 32% vaccinated), with 239 currently in intensive care (76% unvaccinated, 24% vaccinated) and 120 on a ventilator (85% unvaccinated, 15% vaccinated). The daily percent positive was 21.56%.

A total of 951,361 people have been vaccinated for COVID-19 in West Virginia, the DHHR said. That’s about 53% of the state. Of those, 382,874 are fully vaccinated and have received their booster dose.

CURRENT ACTIVE CASES PER COUNTY: Barbour (126), Berkeley (470), Boone (230), Braxton (54), Brooke (84), Cabell (815), Calhoun (37), Clay (44), Doddridge (58), Fayette (649), Gilmer (36), Grant (106), Greenbrier (399), Hampshire (137), Hancock (101), Hardy (81), Harrison (439), Jackson (49), Jefferson (247), Kanawha (1,422), Lewis (99), Lincoln (191), Logan (332), Marion (367), Marshall (160), Mason (263), McDowell (221), Mercer (573), Mineral (199), Mingo (200), Monongalia (604), Monroe (164), Morgan (79), Nicholas (277), Ohio (226), Pendleton (53), Pleasants (34), Pocahontas (31), Preston (177), Putnam (443), Raleigh (743), Randolph (153), Ritchie (59), Roane (72), Summers (101), Taylor (112), Tucker (14), Tyler (44), Upshur (132), Wayne (255), Webster (55), Wetzel (110), Wirt (33), Wood (471), Wyoming (212).