By William Wampler Wampler represents Dickenon, Russell and parts of Washington and Wise counties in the House of Delegates. He is a Republican. This past week, the Kaiser Family Foundation released a study that ranked Virginia 49th out of 50 states for its coronavirus testing rates per 1,000 residents. The current mark is around 6 tests per 1,000 individuals across the Southwest Virginia region, which isn’t far off the testing rates in Virginia’s more urban areas on a per capita basis.
