South Carolina exceeds 200,000 cases

Thanksgiving weekend numbers are adding up to a sad distinction for South Carolina’s effort to tamp down the number of those infected by the world pandemic.  Published numbers today from DHEC indicate that the state has now exceeded 200,000 COVID-19 cases (201,354).  The death toll is now 4,043.  Friday and Saturday reports showed an almost identical number of confirmed virus cases for each of the two reporting days. (Friday’s was 1,777; Saturday’s 1,797.)  Statewide there were 28 deaths confirmed on Friday’s report but, again, none on Saturday.  For those two days, there were 148 Oconee County cases, but no county deaths reported.  Here are the results received by DHEC of of tests statewide—Friday’s was 14,302 tests for a positivity of 12.3%; Saturday’s was 13,915 for a positivity of 12.9%.