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’t fulfill the providers’ request for increased vaccine allocations because there is not enough vaccine available from the federal government.