COLOMBIA, SC (WRDW / WAGT) – South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster wants state health officials to relocate tens of thousands of excess doses of the COVID-19 vaccine.
In a letter to the South Carolina Health and Environmental Control Council, he asked that nearly 38,000 doses be removed from the long-term care program and distributed to the general public.
The governor says that the doses to be moved are a predicted surplus and he wants them to be available now, not at the end of the program.
The State Department of Health and Environment did not release the doses.
Here are the latest vaccine statistics for the weekend:
- Georgia has already administered 923,000 doses of vaccine. That’s about 87,000 additional photos since Friday.
- In South Carolina, 418,000 doses of the vaccine were administered. That’s about 55,000 more since Friday.
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