Michelle Liu | Associated Press
Michelle Liu is a corps member for the Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. Report for America is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.
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South Carolina Epidemiologist Dr. Linda Bell said Wednesday that schools could keep coronavirus spread low by ensuring mask wearing and social distancing, but the state's current virus trajectory suggests more cases are inevitable.
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Doctors say a recent surge in COVID-19 cases is pushing South Carolina’s pediatric ICUs to capacity. The Prisma Health pediatricians said Monday the medical system for kids is also overloaded because of a rise in other respiratory viruses as people have stopped social distancing and mask-wearing.
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As South Carolina battles an unchecked rise in COVID-19 cases spurred on by the delta variant and dwindling demand for vaccines, state health officials are urging people to follow new federal guidance on wearing masks indoors.
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A South Carolina man has been convicted of abducting and murdering the woman who mistook his car for her Uber ride in 2019. A jury on Tuesday found Nathaniel Rowland guilty in the death of 21-year-old Samantha Josephson.
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Public health experts warned Wednesday of another surge in COVID-19 cases and deaths across South Carolina as more than half of state residents remain unvaccinated.
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South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster said that he doesn't want the federal government sending people door-to-door to convince residents to get vaccinated against COVID-19, joining a growing number of Republican state politicians opposing the strategy.
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Last year, the state's housing authority ran a $25 million rental and mortgage assistance program with federal CARES Act money. As of mid-June, it had only disbursed $1.9 million to 400 people, though 5,000 people met the initial criteria. The agency says federal requirements have slowed the program down.
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Vice President Kamala Harris visited South Carolina on Monday to kick off a nationwide push to vaccinate millions more Americans against the coronavirus as July 4 holiday celebrations loom.
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A federal judge on Friday declined to halt the upcoming executions of two South Carolina prisoners slated to die later this month under the state’s recently revised capital punishment law.
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A South Carolina judge on Tuesday refused to block two executions set for later this month as she considers a lawsuit over the state’s new capital punishment law, which effectively forces condemned prisoners to choose to die by either the electric chair or firing squad.