Kathryn Smith, author of Gertie: The Fabulous Life of Gertrude Sanford Legendre, Heiress, Explorer, Socialite, Spy (2021, Evening Post Publishing Company) joins Walter Edgar to tell the amazing story of Gertrude Sanford Legendre, a woman whose adventurous life spanned the twentieth century, beginning in Aiken, S.C. in 1902 and ending at her plantation outside Charleston in 2000. Listen • 51:59
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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
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
MUSC nurse receives Lowcountryâs first COVID vaccine dose MUSC Pediatric registered nurse Shemika Champion became the first health care worker in the Lowcountry to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday afternoon. (Source: Live 5) By Summer Huechtker, Riley Bean, Patrick Phillips, and Alexis Simmons | December 15, 2020 at 5:18 AM EST - Updated December 15 at 9:22 PM
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) - A pediatric registered nurse at Medical University of South Carolina became the first in the Lowcountry to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine Tuesday afternoon.
Shemika Champion, a pediatric registered nurse, was the first recipient and received her vaccination shortly after 12:45 p.m.