Governor James C. Justice: We’ll give you a few stats now about what’s going on in West Virginia.
West Virginia is seeing a 26 percent increase in positive cases of people that are fully vaccinated over the last eight weeks. We’ll read that one more time. West Virginia is seeing a 26 percent increase in positive cases in people that are fully vaccinated.
And a twenty one percent increase in breakthrough cases, requiring hospitalization for people that are fully vaccine.
We have also seen a 25 percent increase in deaths of people that are fully vaccinated over the last 8 weeks. Now that’s not a twenty five percent increase of the total numbers, or whatever it is, a twenty five percent increase of death of people that are fully vaccinated over the last the last 8 weeks.