Two More COVID Deaths In Washington County

COVID cases in Washington County are continuing to climb and so are the number of fatalities.  Over the weekend, Washington County reported two new COVID related deaths, bringing the county’s death toll to 317.  There were also 182 new infections reported, bringing the overall total to 19,369.  In Allegheny County, over the past seventy-two hours, there were 945 new cases and one new death.  Across Pennsylvania, over that same time period, health officials reported more than 9,000 new cases along with 34 new deaths.  Hospitalizations across the state are going up as well, with more than seventeen-hundred individuals hospitalized.  Four-hundred and seventy-six of those patients are in the intensive care unit.  Vaccinations continue to remain rather stagnant, even with the FDA approval of the Pfizer vaccine.  State health officials say sixty-five-point-seven-percent of eligible adults have been fully vaccinated.