By Nick Masuda
nmasuda@postandcourier.com
The vaccine rollout will take months, and it could be next spring before the free and voluntary two-dose treatment is available to all of South Carolinaâs 5 million residents.
State health officials are prioritizing hospital workers and nursing home residents with the first 200,000 vaccines they expect to receive by the end of the year. Averting deaths is the overarching goal for the first vaccines, Department of Health and Environmental Control Interim Public Health Director Brannon Traxler told Greenville business leaders on Tuesday.
Pharmacist John Fowler fills doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at at Roper Hospital Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, in Charleston. Grace Beahm Alford/Staff