Vaccine shortage in SC threatens vaccination push by hospitals
Vaccine shortage in SC threatens vaccination push by hospitals By Chris Joseph | January 16, 2021 at 2:47 PM EST - Updated January 16 at 6:18 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - Prisma Health is rolling out drive-through COVID-19 vaccination clinics in Columbia and in the Upstate next week.
They may not have the doses to get it done.
Friday evening, the South Carolina Hospital Association published a press release that said DHEC was only able to allocate a quarter of the COVID-19 vaccine doses hospitals requested.
DHEC sent WIS a statement reading:
South Carolina and South Carolina hospitals are continuing to receive the same number of doses of COVID-19 vaccine as in previous weeks. Some hospitals and vaccine providers who place orders for their weekly vaccine allocations have requested four to five times more doses than they had in previous weeks, to accommodate a high demand for the vaccine. However, the state can’
Hundreds get COVID vaccine at double secret vaccination clinic at state fairgrounds Zak Koeske, The State (Columbia, S.C.)
Jan. 16 COLUMBIA, S.C. South Carolina s health department held an unpublicized mass vaccination clinic Friday at the state fairgrounds in Columbia that drew hundreds of people who waited in their cars for hours to secure doses of the scarce COVID-19 vaccine. We heard about it this morning when a friend texted us to say she had heard that DHEC was running the vaccination program at the fairgrounds for people over 70, said Jay Bender, an attorney who sometimes represents the South Carolina Press Association and The State newspaper.