COVID-19 Daily Update 8-13-2020 – West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources

The West Virginia Department of Health andHuman Resources (DHHR) reportsas of 10:00 a.m., on August 13, 2020, there have been 339,349 total confirmatory laboratory results receivedfor COVID-19, with 8,151 total cases and 153 deaths.

CASESPER COUNTY: Barbour (29), Berkeley (720), Boone (112),Braxton (8), Brooke (70), Cabell (431), Calhoun (6), Clay (18), Doddridge (6),Fayette (160), Gilmer (17), Grant (131), Greenbrier (92), Hampshire (84),Hancock (112), Hardy (62), Harrison (238), Jackson (165), Jefferson (302),Kanawha (1,020), Lewis (28), Lincoln (96), Logan (276), Marion (195), Marshall(130), Mason (67), McDowell (62), Mercer (216), Mineral (125), Mingo (195),Monongalia (962), Monroe (20), Morgan (31), Nicholas (39), Ohio (271),Pendleton (42), Pleasants (14), Pocahontas (42), Preston (125), Putnam (204),Raleigh (276), Randolph (212), Ritchie (3), Roane (19), Summers (16), Taylor(60), Tucker (11), Tyler (15), Upshur (38), Wayne (214), Webster (4), Wetzel(44), Wirt (7), Wood (266), Wyoming (43).

As case surveillance continues at thelocal health department level, it may reveal that those tested in a certaincounty may not be a resident of that county,or even the state as an individual in question may have crossed the stateborder to be tested. Such is the case of Jackson,Mineral, Nicholas and Ohio counties in this report.

Please note that delays may be experiencedwith the reporting of information from the local health department to DHHR.

On August 12, 2020, DHHR announced thatboth confirmed and probable deaths will be reported on the dashboard, per CDCguidelines. Probable deaths are defined as decedents who had no knownpositive laboratory test for COVID-19 but whose death certificate listsCOVID-19 as a cause of death or contributing factor, or decedents who weresymptomatic and had a known exposure to COVID-19.

Confirmed and probable cases have beenreported in this report since April but will now be combined for the purpose ofthis report. Data is published daily at 10 a.m. on thedashboard located at http://www.coronavirus.wv.gov.

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COVID-19 Daily Update 8-13-2020 - West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources