August 20th, 2020 by WCBC Radio

The Coronavirus Response Coordinator,  Dr. Deborah Birx, visited Charleston, West Virginia Wednesday to meet with Governor Justice and participate in a roundtable with community and state health officials. While taking questions from reporters following the roundtable discussion, Dr. Birx said this was her first trip to what she called a ‘green state'.  Birx said she’s been to 21 states in the last six weeks and West Virginia was the first state on the tour with a test positivity rate of 3.6 percent and about ‘seven coronavirus cases per 100,000 people.'  Dr. Birx said one major takeaway from Wednesday’s roundtable discussion was the state’s new color-coded school alert system that will determine whether individual counties are allowed to reopen school to in-person instruction on the target date of Sept. 8.  West Virginia School Superintendent Clayton Burch…