BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. – Children in Berkeley County as young as six months old will soon be eligible to be vaccinated against COVID-19. On Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized emergency use of the Moderna and the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for the prevention of COVID-19 to include use in children down to 6 months of age. “Many parents, […]

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. – The South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources urge Berkeley County residents – as well as other South Carolinians – not to keep wild animals as pets. Wild animals live in nature and are not domesticated, meaning they’re not tame or kept as a pet or on […]

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C – The vaccine deployment in December 2020 signaled a turning point in the COVID-19 pandemic. By the end of May 2021, 40% of the U.S. population was fully vaccinated. But as vaccination rates lagged over the summer, new surges of COVID-19 came, including Delta in the summer of 2021, and now the Omicron variant, which comprises the […]

Berkeley County is considered one of the “healthiest” in South Carolina, according to new County Health Rankings data from the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. – Residents in Berkeley County and throughout the state can help the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) track West Nile virus this spring and summer by submitting certain species of dead birds for lab testing. DHEC’s dead bird surveillance program allows the agency to better understand where and when there is an increase in West […]

The Berkeley County Library System is offering FREE COVID-19 Rapid (Antigen) or Saliva (PCR) Test Kits provided SCDHEC.

More than 14,500 South Carolinians have died due to COVID-19, however, most individuals who contract COVID-19 experience minor illness and do not need to visit an emergency department or a doctor’s office, state health officials said. (FILE PHOTO) BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. – As COVID-19 cases reach record levels in South Carolina, hospitals and doctors’ offices in Berkeley County and the […]

Berkeley County has also seen a spike in cases. Over the last two weeks, 2,320 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the county, state data shows