And those numbers include only people who live in the county. The figures do not count anyone who tests positive after taking COVID-19 home along with a souvenir hermit crab or an airbrushed T-shirt. Business leaders estimate 20 million people visit the area each year, 60 times Horry County’s population of about 330,000.
Christy Kasler is from another state that produces many Myrtle Beach visitors — Ohio. As she sat in a chair and watched her daughter-in-law play with her 11-month-old grandson on his first trip to the beach, she said the recommendation to self-quarantine when she returns to her Nelsonville home was asking too much.“If I get it, I could have just as easily got it back home,” Kasler said. “You can’t live your life in fear.
The state sets records almost daily for the number of new cases, the percentage of positive tests and the number of people in the hospital with COVID-19. “We understand that what we’re continuing to ask of everyone is not easy and that many are tired of hearing the same warnings and of taking the same daily precautions, but this virus does not take a day off,” state epidemiologist Dr. Linda Bell said in a statement.
Some of those businesses remain closed. Others that reopened are struggling with the extra cost of cleaning, food and other supplies, and the reduction in revenue because they cannot accommodate as many customers under social-distancing rules.
KimberlyOnAir Their are mobile testing in Spartanburg going to apartments giving you a 10$ gift card to qt for being tested. Strange times
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Heading there next week!!!
RobCrumpton Maybe trump should show up there, and have the beach goers sign waivers. -His rally was such a huge hit, maybe he should go on a CoronaTour
Wow it's June 23rd 2020 and the AP is *still* pushing panic porn about people going to beaches outside? People still read this anti-scientific garage?
We're having some Covid! Some wonderful Covid! It's not so surprising the Left is imploding and the whole country sees that now!
Infections in Us have followed a gentle curve like a concave lens with now on the return to the up.
You write Bullshit. covid19 will go up after we flattened the curve & as we reopen we will see spikes. Most important we are ready & can manage the disease ⚠️🚨
Good job now do the marches and riots
KingslyFishao let's go.
They are peacefully protesting being under house arrest for months. Leave them alone.
You know AP if Covid-19 killed anyone and everyone it came in contact with, I'd say the people are correct to be scared. IT DOESN'T. Your JOB is to report OBJECTIVELY not to whip people into a never ending FEAR FRENZY.
So what, the flu hasn't even hire new infection rate, dumbasses.
So what? The question that matters is, how many are SICK?
It's bullshit the testing numbers went up that's why they're getting more positive
The COVID19 version of drunk drivers who think they can handle it... nope. MaskUp StayHome
When Tyson foods had 481 of its employees test positive for coronavrius, only 26 of them had any symptoms at all. Let stop fearmongering as if its a death sentence. Its not anything close to that especially now that we know so much more about it then we did several months back.
selling fear as usual ... more test=more cases ... but do continue with the fear mongering for power and money ...
We'll be fine. Take your fear porn elsewhere.
Selfish New Yorkers (D) ignored protocols and infected millions of Americans up and down the eastern seaboard.
They need to quarantine for two weeks when they return to their home state
Except the recent 2 week vacation to allow for rioting and protesting.
Yet they are doing better than 31 states in terms of deaths when adjusted for population.
Science says bring a brick with you and Covid stays up to 25 ft away from you. Each brick you bring adds 20 ft of Covid safety.
Why do I need hourly updates ? How’s cancer doing ? Is heart disease still a thing ?
Are you happy now henrymcmaster ? You have put SC citizens at risk because you opened to early and refuse to require mask or social distancing. How many South Carolinians are going to have life long after affects or die from this virus because you have to parrot Trump?
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How are the hospitalizations? ICU beds?
It did for the Democrat looting and destruction
When adjusted for how we want it to look.
Black lives matter protests/riots are fine though!
Every state and city should've enforced quarantine measures on the directive from the federal government to contain this virus. But such measures are apparently foreign and uncomfortable to the American system, leading to a mass spread of the infection.
Just think of them as peaceful protesters...