Health officials give update as respiratory illnesses surge in South Carolina

SOURCE: DHEC PRESS RELEASE

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO)– Respiratory illnesses like RSV, the flu and COVID continue to spread in the Palmetto State.

The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control lead Medical Consultant Doctor Martha Buchanan met with the media on Thursday morning to give an update on the spread of the illnesses.

Doctor Buchanan says South Carolina contin

ues to be one of the state’s with the most rampant spread of cases of respiratory illnesses.