Reporter/Local Editor
The vast majority of COVID-19 hospitalizations in the Prisma Health system are unvaccinated patients according to a September 7, 2021 census.
GREENVILLE — Prisma Health, the state’s largest hospital system, has suspended elective in-patient surgeries in the Upstate as COVID-19 patients overwhelm its hospitals amid growing fears the recent holiday and packed football stadiums will cause a further surge.
The number of COVID-19 patients taking up space is rising “at an alarming rate” even with wide availability of vaccines, Dr. Wendell James, chief clinical officer for Prisma Health in the Upstate, said in a release Sept. 8.
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Reporter/Local Editor
Eric is a reporter and local editor for The Post and Courier in Greenville. Previously with The Greenville News, he’s covered the Upstate for two decades and served as a USA TODAY correspondent. He studied journalism at the University of South Carolina.
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