by KATE EVANS
Governor Jim Justice issued an executive order on Wednesday, August 12 that temporarily prohibits in-person visitation to all nursing homes in West Virginia after 28 active outbreaks of COVID-19 infections occurred in nursing homes around the state. Justice was also concerned about community spread of the virus and 12 new deaths from COVID-19 in various counties-11 of the deaths in elderly individuals.
Exceptions to the nursing home visitation restrictions were “cases of compassionate…
