People frustrated over Grand Strand Medical Center not scheduling second doses
People frustrated over Grand Strand Medical Center not scheduling second doses By Katherine Phillips | February 24, 2021 at 7:25 PM EST - Updated February 25 at 5:13 PM
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - WMBF News has gotten countless calls, messages, and emails from viewers who said they haven’t been able to get their second COVID-19 dose from Grand Strand Medical Center.
Unlike Conway Medical Center, Tidelands Health and McLeod Health, those who get vaccinated against coronavirus at Grand Strand Medical do not walk away from their first COVID-19 dose appointment with a time and date to come back for their second.
Grand Strand Medical forced to cancel COVID-19 clinic, other hospitals also seeing delays
Grand Strand Medical forced to cancel COVID-19 clinic, other hospitals also seeing delays By Katherine Phillips | February 18, 2021 at 7:28 PM EST - Updated February 18 at 7:28 PM
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) - Ahead of the dangerous winter storm thatâs swept across the southeast, DHEC alerted South Carolina hospitals that they could experience delays in vaccine shipments.
Grand Strand Medical Center previously announced they needed to cancel the COVID-19 vaccination clinic planned for Thursday. Hospital officials said they didnât receive the scheduled shipment of doses.
âWe have not heard about what to expect for our shipments this week and we have not received any shipments this week,â said Mary Scotts, Grand Strand Medical Centerâs Director of Infection Prevention.
Where seconds before there had been a bedroom ceiling, Robert DeNitto looked up into a howling maw of wind, rain and darkness.
DeNitto and his family had just started to live the whole retirement dream, he said, when they moved into their house in Ocean Ridge Plantation near Ocean Isle Beach on Feb. 10.
That dream would turn into a nightmare less than a week later when the home at 6960 Cambria Court that DeNitto shared with his wife, Debra, and son, Zachary, exploded during an F3 tornado packing 165-mile-per-hour winds late at night on Feb. 15.
The DeNittos suffered injuries, but their next door neighbors, Richard and Phyllis O Connor, whose home was lifted up and thrown into the DeNittos , died in the storm.
Vaccine clinic at Grand Strand Medical Center postponed after doses not received
What to expect after getting a COVID-19 vaccine By WMBF News Staff | February 17, 2021 at 3:57 PM EST - Updated February 17 at 6:41 PM
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (WMBF) – A planned COVID-19 vaccine clinic at Grand Strand Medical Center will not take place after a shipment of doses was not received.
According to a hospital spokesperson, Grand Strand Medical’s weekly shipment of vaccines had not been received as of 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.
The planned public vaccine clinic that was set for Thursday, Feb. 18, will not occur until another shipment of doses is received, hospital officials said.