COVID-19 Daily Update 8-7-2020 – West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources

The West Virginia Department of Health andHuman Resources (DHHR) reports as of 10:00 a.m., on August 7,2020, there have been 312,521 total confirmatorylaboratory results received for COVID-19, with 7,433 totalcases and 127 deaths.

DHHR has confirmed the deaths of an81-year old female from Pleasants County, a 66-year old male from Mingo Countyand a 73-year old male from Mingo County. We offer our deepest sympathies to thefamilies as our state grieves more losses due to COVID-19, said Bill J.Crouch, DHHR Cabinet Secretary.

In alignment with updated definitions fromthe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the dashboard includes probablecases which are individuals that have symptoms and either serologic (antibody)or epidemiologic (e.g., a link to a confirmed case) evidence of disease, but noconfirmatory test.

CASESPER COUNTY (Case confirmed by lab test/Probable case):Barbour (29/0), Berkeley (658/28), Boone(97/0), Braxton (8/0), Brooke (61/1), Cabell (364/9), Calhoun (6/0), Clay(17/1), Doddridge (5/0), Fayette (140/0), Gilmer (16/0), Grant (116/1),Greenbrier (91/0), Hampshire (76/0), Hancock (105/4), Hardy (57/1), Harrison(213/1), Jackson (162/0), Jefferson (288/6), Kanawha (885/13), Lewis (28/1),Lincoln (81/0), Logan (209/0), Marion (179/4), Marshall (126/4), Mason (54/0),McDowell (57/1), Mercer (177/0), Mineral (115/2), Mingo (156/2), Monongalia(918/17), Monroe (20/1), Morgan (25/1), Nicholas (35/1), Ohio (263/3),Pendleton (39/1), Pleasants (11/1), Pocahontas (40/1), Preston (101/21), Putnam(185/1), Raleigh (208/7), Randolph (204/4), Ritchie (3/0), Roane (15/0),Summers (7/0), Taylor (55/1), Tucker (11/0), Tyler (13/0), Upshur (36/3), Wayne(198/2), Webster (4/0), Wetzel (42/0), Wirt (6/0), Wood (231/12), Wyoming(31/0).

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 individualin question may have crossed the state border to be tested.Such is the case of Preston County in this report.

Specificallyregarding the change in cases for Grant and Pendleton counties in this report,when the tests were administered in these counties the facility left someaddress fields blank therefore the address on file resorted back to thehistoric address on file for an individual which was not necessarily consideredtheir current address.

Pleasenote that delays may be experienced with the reporting of information from thelocal health department to DHHR. Visitthe dashboard at http://www.coronavirus.wv.gov for more detailed information.

On July 24,2020, Gov. Jim Justice announced that DHHR, the agency in charge of reportingthe number of COVID-19 cases, will transition from providing twice-dailyupdates to one report every 24 hours. This became effective August 1, 2020.

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COVID-19 Daily Update 8-7-2020 - West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources