Health department seeks answers for elevated carbon monoxide levels among some Covington residents

Health department seeks answers for elevated carbon monoxide levels among some Covington residents

For more than two months, officials from multiple Virginia health agencies have received reports of elevated carboxyhemoglobin, with many of those being tested believing that the numbers were the result of air they had breathed inside Covington Middle School.Officials from the Alleghany Highlands Public Schools say if the test that measures the amount of hemoglobin cells bonding with carbon monoxide is higher than what is considered to be normal…