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My Take: Arrival of COVID-19 vaccine offers hope during year of hardship My Take: Arrival of COVID-19 vaccine offers hope during year of hardship By WIS News 10 Staff | December 18, 2020 at 4:36 PM EST - Updated December 18 at 5:13 PM COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The arrival of a COVID-19 vaccine marks a major turning point in the pandemic. Earlier this week, South Carolina received thousands of doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Employees at Lexington Medical Center were among the first to receive th...

By Liv Osby The first doses of Covid-19 vaccine were being administered in Greenville County and at Lexington Medical Center on Tuesday amid a background of rising cases and hospitalizations that are straining hospital resources.  Dr. Saria Saccocio, ambulatory chief medical officer and leader of the Covid-19 Vaccination Task Force with Prisma Health, said the hospital system was approved for nearly 10,000 doses in the initial distribution, and that vaccinations were to start Tuesday morning. ...

V Day arrives at Lexington Medical, Prisma Health as first COVID vaccinations given Zak Koeske and Bristow Marchant, The State (Columbia, S.C.) Dec. 15—Lexington Medical Center and Prisma Health are among 15 health care systems across South Carolina that have received shipments of Pfizer-BioNTechs COVID-19 vaccine and begun administering it to hospital staff. Prisma Health announced Tuesday it had received 9,750 doses of the vaccine and Lexington said it had gotten nearly 3,00...

Prisma Health and Lexington Medical Center vaccinated several frontline healthcare workers Tuesday. Author: Julia Kauffman (WLTX) Updated: 12:00 AM EST December 16, 2020 COLUMBIA, S.C. — Tuesday marked a historic day for two major hospital systems in the Midlands. Both Lexington Medical Center and Prisma Health received their first shipments of the coronavirus vaccine. Lexington Medical Center received 2,925 doses of the Pfizer vaccine and Prisma health receive...

By Nick Masuda nmasuda@postandcourier.com The vaccine rollout will take months, and it could be next spring before the free and voluntary two-dose treatment is available to all of South Carolina’s 5 million residents. State health officials are prioritizing hospital workers and nursing home residents with the first 200,000 vaccines they expect to receive by the end of the year. "Averting deaths" is the overarching goal for the first vaccines, Department of Health and Environmental Control ...

Midlands health care professionals receive first doses of COVID-19 vaccine Thousands of doses were delivered to Columbia area hospitals Tuesday morning Dec 15, 2020 6:16 PM EST LEXINGTON, S.C. (WOLO) — It’s been nine months since South Carolina’s first reported COVID-19 case, but on Tuesday, a COVID-19 vaccine has been administered for the first time in the Midlands. Medical professionals at several Midlands hospitals received their first doses of the Pfizer vaccine Tuesday afternoon, ma...

Lexington Medical Center begins COVID-19 vaccinations Lexington Medical Center begins COVID-19 vaccinations By Caroline Coleburn | December 15, 2020 at 1:13 PM EST - Updated December 15 at 9:26 PM WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Nearly 50 Lexington Medical Center employees received the first COVID-19 vaccine doses Tuesday afternoon. LMC says UPS delivered 2,925 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to the hospital campus in West Columbia at 9:30 Tuesday morning. According to the hospital, the v...