Gov. Justice directs state health and fitness officers to keep on monitoring Omicron figures and healthcare facility mattress availability

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OMICRON VARIANT UPDATE
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Gov. Justice introduced these days that, with the quantity of Omicron variant instances climbing throughout the nation, he has directed state health and fitness officers and his COVID-19 response group to go on intently checking case figures alongside with the state’s healthcare facility mattress availability.

“We only have 18 situations, but we know it’s certainly transferring. It’s heading to get better,” Gov. Justice stated. “I’ve directed my staff to retain a close view and give me with suggestions about our hospitals and our critical care infrastructure.

“The bottom line is that we want to help you save life, protect our hospitals, and secure our means to treatment for our men and women,” Gov. Justice ongoing. “It is totally essential that we be involved about the chance that we could get into a scenario the place our hospitals are overrun.”

The Governor extra that West Virginians can do their component to lessen the load on hospitals by finding vaccinated or boosted to protect versus significant COVID infection.

“You definitely want to stage up and get you vaccinated or get that booster shot,” Gov. Justice stated.&#13