Lawmakers form committee to get answers after resident express frustration with vaccine rollout
Lawmakers form committee to get answers after resident express frustration with vaccine rollout By Adam Mintzer | January 19, 2021 at 9:38 PM EST - Updated January 19 at 9:38 PM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - State leaders from both sides of the aisle are using a wide range of adjectives from “frustrated” to “unacceptable” to “inexcusable” to describe the vaccine rollout in South Carolina.
On Monday, House Speaker Jay Lucas formed a committee under the House Legislative Oversight Committee to look at how state agencies, including the Department of Health and Environmental Control, are distributing the COVID-19 vaccine.
This map shows South Carolina's slow COVID vaccine rollout as measured by the CDC, as of Jan. 19. The state is second-to-last in vaccinating its residents.
Luiz Martins lives in Greenville. He’s 70 years old, which means he qualifies to be among the first South Carolinians to get a COVID-19 vaccine shot, and he’s tech savvy, which means knows his way around the internet.
He’s happy that he’s officially on the list to get his vaccination – he’ll get his first shot on Feb. 13.
What he’s not happy with is how much effort he says it took him to get that appointment set.
âMoving at an unacceptable paceâ: S.C. lawmakers form committee to review COVID-19 vaccine rollout (Source: WAVE 3 News) By Kristin Nelson | January 18, 2021 at 7:40 PM EST - Updated January 19 at 7:38 AM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WMBF) â Two South Carolina leaders announced on Monday the formation of a committee that will review the stateâs COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
House Speaker Jay Lucas and Chairman Weston Newton created a Legislative Oversight Ad Hoc Committee which will look over the Department of Health and Environmental Controlâs distribution of the vaccine.
FORGING AHEAD |
Lucas wrote a letter to Marshall Taylor, the acting director of DHEC, to say the rollout has not gone as well as many had hoped.