Even as the virus has slowed its growth in overwhelmed Italy and in China, where it first emerged, hospitals in Spain and France are reaching their breaking points and the U.S. and Britain are bracing for incoming waves of desperately ill people.
The governor said the decisions that have been made and will be made will be those that follow the “data and science” that state officials have been receiving.
While it has been a challenge converting to virtual instruction, faculty say that the COVID-19 crisis has also been a good learning experience for the students.
Inmates at two South Carolina correctional institutions are making more than 1,000 masks a day to give to health care workers on the front line of the coronavirus pandemic.
The bleak news Thursday — 6.6 million new unemployment claims on top of 3.3 million last week — came as the competition for scarce ventilators, masks and other protective gear seemed to grow more desperate and deaths mounted.
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MICHAEL R. SISAK, LORI HINNANT and MARK SHERMAN Associated Press
When 7-year-old Khyla Lanoue celebrated her birthday this week, she couldn’t have a typical party because of social distancing guidelines. The Charleston Police Department then stepped in to plan a parade.
Statistics released over the course of the week by the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control shows a wide range of age groups are being affected by COVID-19.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster says he has ordered the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control to disclose up-to-date numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases by zip code.
The stunning report Thursday from the Labor Department showed that job cuts are mounting against the backdrop of economies in the United States and abroad that have almost certainly sunk into a severe recession as businesses have shut down across the world.
The South Carolina Restaurant and Lodging Association along with the Scofflaw Brewing Company has launched a relief fund to help those who work in the hospitality industry who have been affected by COVID-19.
A Moncks Corner woman has altered her sewing business to help as masks are move into high demand for healthcare workers across the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic.
