The Republican governor on Monday had heralded a sharp drop in COVID-19 deaths since the beginning of the year, metrics health officials cited to support the governor easing restrictions on businesses.
โI'm really sorry.โDr. Ayne Amjad, the state's health officer, said officials are waiting to find out if there are more unreported deaths.
She blamed it on facilities not filling out death reports online to the state's health department in a timely matter.
The single facility with the most unreported deaths was at a hospital in Parkersburg, Camden-Clark Medical Center Memorial Campus, with 12 fatalities.
Itโs the second such discovery of dozens of unreported deaths during the pandemic in West Virginia.