Adding up South Carolina COVID cases and deaths

South Carolina’s COVID-19 numbers keep on rising.  This morning we have a count for the last three days of numbers reported by the state health agency.  For the reporting period Friday through yesterday, additional case numbers statewide were 2,693.  That includes 1,281 cases on yesterday’s report.  The death toll also inches upward, with 18 deaths reported Friday; 13 deaths Saturday; and seven deaths yesterday.  The three-day death toll included an elderly Oconeean, who died Wednesday, October 21.  Of the thousands of test results reported to DHEC during the three-day period, the positivity percentages were 12.3% on Friday; 11% on Saturday.  There were no test result numbers included on yesterday’s report.