Gov. Justice anticipates long-term care facilities to be fully vaccinated this week

During Gov. Jim Justice’s most recent press conference on Friday, he announced that he expected all long-term care facilities to be fully vaccinated by today as the state is among national leaders in distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine.

“Right now, we are leading the nation in getting all of our nursing homes and assisted-living facilities vaccinated,” he said. “We’re very, very hopeful to have that achieved by the 28th of the month. We, absolutely, should be complete by (today), and that means we would have offered vaccines to all 214 facilities in our state. Before some other states get out the blocks and even start giving people vaccinations and everything, I hope from the standpoint of our assisted care and our nursing homes, we’ll be done.”

As of Sunday at 10 a.m., the state has received 60,875 vaccinations and administered 29,675, according to the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources website.

“According to Bloomberg, West Virginia still has the highest administration rate of any state in the country,” Justice said during Friday’s press conference. “We are now — with 60,000 doses we have here – we are now 47.01%, and the closest to us is Maine with 28%. West Virginia is doing a great job there, and that is all a tribute to our health care people and all our great work by our National Guard. Just keep it up everybody.”

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(Martinsburg Journal)