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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 the vaccine. Many of you have told us that you are reluctant to take the vaccine and have questions ab...

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. “We are thrilled,” she said during a forum on the vaccine hosted by the Greenville Chamber of Co...

'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-BioNTech's 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 3,000 doses at its West Columbia campus. Both health systems said they had started to vaccinate emplo...

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 received 9,750 doses to split between their Midlands and Upstate locations. The shipments came in boxes of ...

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 Interim Public Health Director Brannon Traxler told Greenville business leaders on Tuesday. Pharmaci...