The Greenville News recently included IMPH and DHEC\u2019s COVID-19 data brief in its daily coronavirus news roundup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Health officials release 2020 pandemic report: The South Carolina Institute of Medicine & Public health and the state's Department of Health and Environmental Control announced its 2020 COVID-19 report<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n December was South Carolina's worst month in terms of positivity and new cases. Hospitalizations were also rising at the end of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \"Hospital systems are designed to handle predictable levels of disease in a population, not pandemics. Challenging hospital capacity can have grim consequences in health outcomes; as health care workers are pushed to their limits and resources are overwhelmed, rationing decisions may be made and quality of care may be affected,\" the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pickens County had the highest rate of cases in 2020 overall, and Greenville and Spartanburg counties led the state with the most deaths, 524 and 406 deaths in 2020 respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The report warned that the new variant, B.1.1.7, was up to 56% more infectious, but as vaccine production and distribution ramps up, cases and deaths are expected to decline in the coming months. Read more from the Greenville News, here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Greenville News recently included IMPH and DHEC\u2019s COVID-19 data brief in its daily coronavirus news roundup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"work-type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13044"},{"taxonomy":"work-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imph.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work-type?post=13044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}