ST. CLAIRSVILLE -- Area hospitals are seeing a surge of COVID-19 patients comparable to the height of the pandemic in 2020, and it is only expected to get worse. Garen Rhome, administrator with the Harrison County Health Department, said the problem is widespread. “Generally speaking, what we’re seeing as far as cases go is cases comparable or worse to early January of this year, the difference being in January we were on the downside of the curve,” he said. “We seem to be on the upswing of a curve in the beginning of a surge. We are seeing cases like November, December of ...