VACCINATION GOAL FURTHER AWAY THAN ANTICIPATED IN W.V.

A double counting error is being blamed as the reason West Virginia’s vaccination numbers were inflated.  Previously, it was thought the state had 74-percent of eligible residents who had at least one COVID vaccine shot.  However, that corrected number is fewer than 64-percent.  Now, the goal of 80-percent statewide vaccination is a bit further away.  West Virginia’s interagency task force leader, Jim Hoyer, said he believes the error in the count was not nefarious, but that someone just made a mistake.