Churches and the vaccine outreach effort in South Carolina
Reid Chapel AME Church in Columbia has been looking for ways to help the community since the coronavirus pandemic started. Author: Nic Jones Updated: 9:59 PM EDT July 19, 2021
COLUMBIA, S.C. Some churches are continuing to look to make an impact in the vaccination effort in the Palmetto State.
Reid Chapel AME Church in Columbia has been looking for ways to help the community since the coronavirus pandemic started.
Reverend Carey Grady says in the Spring of 2020, their church had volunteers who started making phone calls to seniors to find out what their needs were.
As SC testing rates drop, sites slow down and drop hours
As SC testing rates drop, sites slow down and drop hours By Chris Joseph | February 27, 2021 at 5:20 PM EST - Updated February 27 at 8:41 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The demand for COVID-19 tests is dropping in South Carolina.
Department of Health and Environmental Control
data shows that on Feb. 25, clinics performed 33,499 tests.
This represents a gradual decline since mid-January, and a sharp plunge from the testing peak on Feb. 3 with 64,054 tests.
The drop in demand has translated to a reduction in hours at some testing sites.
In February, Reid Chapel AME Church rolled back its COVID-19 testing site from Wednesday through Sunday to just Friday through Sunday.
â(Alexander) Pope said âkeep the piece nine years,ââ Tom Smith said and laughed.
A local writer and actor, Smith is a beloved former professor of English literature at Castleton State University. Heâs published 12 volumes of poetry, and a long, prize-winning story. His recently published second novel, âYour House Is on Fireâ has been in various stages of drafts and rewrites for the past 10 years, well more than Popeâs recommendation, but itâs actually been 80 years in the making.
An intimate story of a family and its struggles, itâs seen through the eyes of young Gary Grady, a child who âloves beauty and glitz as much as he loves his alcoholic grandfather, sweet mother and distant father.â Garyâs plight presents the question: When you donât feel that you fit in, how do you find a place in the world?