CLARKSBURG, W.Va. – The Harrison-Clarksburg Health Department is now reporting ten cases in that area.
Administrator Chad Bundy was a guest on WAJR’s Talk of the Town with Dave & Sarah and said they are conducting contact tracing in order to notify others who may have been exposed.
“The good news is we don’t have a hot spot, we don’t have nine cases in a small area,”Bundy said,”We have ten cases over pretty much the entire county, we have five of our nine townships represented in that.”
Bundy says the virus was first detected in the county about two weeks ago and now it’s clearly being spread from person-to-person. Because of this, Bundy says we have to use the power we have to isolate and practice social distancing.
“We need to stay at home. We need to question ourselves about why we’re going out? Is it something we need to do? We need to stay at home, and that’s tough on us as a society,”Bundy said,”But, that’s the right thing to do for Harrison Countians right now, and we can keep pushing that disease down and flatten that curve.”
“The primary way this disease is being spread is by respiratory droplets, so by maintaining that six-foot distance you’re increasing your chance to not get this virus,”Bundy said,”That’s been shown to be the distance you need to stay away to not be infected by those droplets.”
Bundy says key leaders won’t be able to make decisions about opening things up until the number cases has peaked and begins to drop and we see those with the disease recover.