MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Coronavirus cases within Mon Health System are declining, according to its leading official.
Mon Health System on Tuesday reported 11 coronavirus patients. The state Department of Health and Human Resources the same day reported 582 hospitalizations related to the pandemic across West Virginia, in which 152 people are receiving intensive care treatment and 64 people are on ventilators.
David Goldberg, Mon Health System’s president and CEO, said Preston Memorial Hospital, Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital and Grafton City Hospital had 55 total cases at one point of the pandemic.
“We’ve had capacity, and we still have capacity to take care of people and their healthcare needs, but we are trending down,” he stated in an interview with WAJR-AM.
Vaccination efforts are increasing, in which more than 166,000 West Virginians have received the first doses. More than 43,000 residents are fully vaccinated.
“Now that schools are coming back into play, the university students are back and populations are mixing,” Goldberg noted. “This is not the time to stop social distancing, not the time to stop masking. Wear your mask, be responsible and we can bend the curve.”
Monongalia Health Department, Mon Health System and WVU Medicine on Monday announced a new partnership aimed at increasing vaccine administration efforts.