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Prisma Health among healthcare providers preparing to distribute COVID-19 vaccine upon FDA approval The FDA says South Carolina could receive up to 300,000 doses by the end of the year Dec 10, 2020 6:24 PM EST COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — As the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) determines if they will give the green light to Pfizer and BioNTech to mass produce their COVID-19 vaccine, states like South Carolina are figuring out how to distribute and administer their doses. The FDA says South Carolina can receive as many as 300,000 doses by the end of the year. As the FDA considers granting an e...

Remote community with no bridges to the mainland. an estimated 800 residents chose not to follow evacuation orders. during the hurricane a 7-foot storm surge caused senate flooding. the coast guard medevaced three residents who were experiencing health emergencies. they also transported an additional three who simply wanted to leave the island. throughout the storm and its aftermath, we've been following power outages. yesterday more than 200,000 customers statewide were without electricity. that figure is now below 48,000. most of those outages concentrated in the outer banks. utility workers...

Utility workers ready to do this important work. in fact i just came from one of our staging areas a little while ago. we have all of the crew we feel we need. we have all of the equipment we feel we need. but now that the storm has come into our service area, we will keep those resources at a safe distance from the storm's impact areas. and then when conditions allow us to go back in, we'll go back in and start those repair and restoration efforts immediately. >> stephen, how does that work? when i'm on the road, i see these crews coming in from all over the country. the search-and-rescue cre...

Even in no-name storms, they come up andy flood the boardwak in the lobby of the hotel these are the areas that police are enforcing a mandatory evacuation on. that being said, people have had time to prepare for this storm so folks who need to be in shelters are already in those locations righto now. you've got 17,000 utility workers across the state are waiting to restore power. they expect to lose in low-lying, flood-prone areas and barrier islands like this one. also, vulnerable people populations like the homeless, disabled, hospitals, they are in shelters right now. so as this time passe...

Are the areas that police are enforcing a mandatory evacuatio on. that being said, people have ha time to prepare for this storm so folks who need to be in shelters are already in those locations right now. 17,000 utility workers across the state are waiting to restor power they expect to lose in low-lying flood prone areas and barrier islands like this one. also vulnerable people, populations like the homeless, disabled, they are in shelters with right now so as this time passes as we're waiting for dorian to come. these are the kinds of conditions we are seeing and people here are just braci...