COVID cases in Mon Schools are still clocking in at all-time pandemic lows, according to the most-recent numbers posted by the district.
A total of nine positive cases were reported among students across the district from April 22-28, and just two staffers presented with positive diagnoses during that same period.
The single-digit trend, as the district’s deputy superintendent Donna Talerico said, is a welcome one.
Especially now that the year is winding down, she said.
While cases are still present, right now, thing are more than manageable, Talerico said.
“We want our students — our seniors especially — to be able to experience everything they can this year.”
Graduation for the district’s three public high schools will be the last weekend of this month.
Prom season is underway also: Morgantown High’s was last Saturday. University High and Clay-Battelle are holding their soirees this Saturday.
A milestone number is also part of those single-digit accounts.
Since people began falling ill in March 2020, a half-million Mountain State residents — a total of 501,968 — have come down with COVID.
That’s according to the state Department of Health and Human Resources, which reports 6,870 deaths to date from the coronavirus and its complications. That includes the 13 deaths reported to the agency between Monday and Tuesday.
A 55-year-old Mingo County man is the youngest of the most-recent victims.
While cases appear to be waning across Mon schools, the coronavirus is still a presence in the Mountain State, according to those DHHR numbers.
Statewide, 225 new cases were reported to the agency over the past two days alone. There are currently 51 active cases in Monongalia County and 10 next door in Preston.
Mon’s north-central West Virginia neighbors of Marion and Harrison counties are showing 34 and 29 active cases, respectively.
As of Tuesday, 100 COVID patients were hospitalized, including one child. Twenty-one of those patients were in intensive care, with another 12 on ventilators.
Calhoun County was the only county not showing green on the DHHR alert map Tuesday. It clocked in at yellow.
Medical professionals, meanwhile, are still encouraging vaccines — booster shots, in particular.
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