Vice President Kamala Harris is coming to the Palmetto State on Monday. This morning, the White House announced that Harris will visit Greenville to promote the coronavirus vaccination effort.
Vaccination numbers in South Carolina are low by national standards. Only 38% of South Carolinians are fully vaccinated. Additionally, not all of our shots are going in arms. Some are going in the trashcan.
The final doses of the coronavirus vaccine at the Columbia Place Mall were administered yesterday, capping off the eight week Mass Vaccination Site. Officials reported more than 21,000 Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses were given during those eight weeks.
You have a chance to get your vaccine while doing a little shopping downtown this weekend. A spokesperson for Prisma Health says the medical group is partnering with the City of Columbia to provide vaccines at Saturday’s Soda City Market.
DHEC reports 119 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and no new deaths in South Carolina.
In a speech on the eve of this year’s G-7 summit in Cornwall, England, Biden on Thursday will unveil plans for the U.S. to donate 500 million vaccine doses around the globe. Biden is expected to ask his fellow G-7 leaders to do more as well.
As plans continue to get more Americans vaccinated by Independence Day, health officials are discussing vaccinating kids as young as five-years-old.
On the vaccine front, DHEC officials say they have administered nearly 2 million first dose shots to South Carolinians since the first Pfizer shot was available in the state in December. During a meeting Wednesday, health officials say demand for vaccines have slowed down.
DHEC reports 162 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 and seven new deaths in the state.
Tests of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine started Monday in Louisiana for children ages 5 through 11.
