Washington County’s COVID Deaths Climbing

COVID deaths and infections in Washington County continue to climb.  Washington County has added another new COVID death, bringing the death toll to 320,  There were also 150 new infections reported, bringing the overall total to 19,576.  Across Pennsylvania, health officials reported one of the highest daily totals in several months.  There were 4,816 new cases along with 90 new deaths.  Hospitalizations across the state are going up as well, with more than eighteen-hundred individuals hospitalized and 481 of those patients 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-six-percent of eligible adults have been fully vaccinated.