Jim Justice tweaks color-coded school reopening metric, responds to critics

Gov. Jim Justice tweaked West Virginia’s color-coded reopening metric for schools after facing criticism that he crafted the standards to make it easier to reopen schools.

Each county will be rated with the color green, yellow, orange or red based on how many new COVID-19 cases the county has per 100,000 people. Schools in counties that score a green (between zero and three new cases per day) and a yellow (between three and nine new cases per day) on the Saturday before the first day of school will be permitted to open.