500 more York, Lancaster Co. residents are vaccinated against COVID-19. What to know.

About 19% of York County’s adult residents now have received at least one dose of the COVID vaccine, state health officials reported Tuesday.

York County, which has about 212,000 residents 15 and older, has administered roughly 51,000 total doses, according to the state Department of Health and Environmental Control. Just over 41,000 of those doses went to York County residents.

Since Monday, nearly 560 more residents in York, Lancaster and Chester counties have been vaccinated as providers work to get doses to the thousands of South Carolinians eligible in Phase 1b.

Phase 1b, which accounts for 2.7 million South Carolinians, has extended eligibility to anyone 55 or older, people age 16-64 with preexisting conditions, and front-line essential workers, such as teachers, law enforcement officers, postal workers and grocery store workers.

The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine has been authorized for those 16 or older, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Moderna’s and Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine are authorized for those 18 or older.

Just over 23% of Lancaster County’s adult residents have received at least one dose, according to DHEC. The county, which has about 75,000 residents 15 and older, has administered roughly 30,000 doses. About 17,500 of those doses went to county residents, according to DHEC.

Although more than 50,000 coronavirus vaccinations have been administered in York County, it has one of the lower vaccination rates per 10,000 residents in South Carolina, according to DHEC.

Lancaster County, meanwhile, has one of the higher rates among South Carolina’s 46 counties but has administered about half of York County’s total.

Rock Hill’s Piedmont Medical Center vaccination clinic, which is one of the largest providers in York County, had administered 20,147 first and second Pfizer-BioNTech doses as of Tuesday, according to DHEC. That makes up roughly 39% of all doses administered in the county, based on DHEC’s data.

MUSC’s Lancaster hospital, one of the largest providers in Lancaster County, has administered 14,897 first and second Pfizer doses as of Tuesday, according to DHEC.

MUSC’s Chester hospital, meanwhile, has administered 2,937 first and second Pfizer doses.

York County

• COVID-19 vaccination rate for York County residents as of Sunday (the most recent data available): 1,944 vaccine recipients per 10,000 residents, which falls in the bottom 20.

• Number of residents who’ve received at least one dose: 41,261

• Number of total doses administered: 51,218

• Number of more residents vaccinated Tuesday: 285

• Percentage of county’s adult population that has received at least one dose: 19.4%

Lancaster County

• COVID-19 vaccination rate for Lancaster County residents as of Sunday: 2,322 vaccine recipients per 10,000 residents, which marks the fourteenth-highest rate in South Carolina.

• Number of residents who have received at least one dose: 17,491

• Number of total doses administered: 29,953

• Number of more residents vaccinated Tuesday: 231

• Percentage of the county’s adult population that has received at least one dose: 23.2%

Chester County

• COVID-19 vaccination rate for Chester County residents as of Sunday: 1,829 vaccine recipients per 10,000 residents.

• Number of residents who have received at least one dose: 4,807

• Number of total doses administered: 4,302

• Number of more residents vaccinated Tuesday: 42

• Percentage of the county’s adult population that has received at least one dose: 18.3%

South Carolina numbers

• Number of South Carolina residents who have received at least one dose: 934,412

• Number of South Carolina residents who have received both: 518,446

• Total doses administered to state residents: 1,432,533

• Percentage of the state’s adult population that has received at least one dose: 22.8%

• Percentage of the state’s adult population that has completed vaccination: 12.6%

Vaccinations by ZIP code

Rock Hill’s ZIP code of 29732, which includes Piedmont Medical Center, continues to lead York County with 11,602 resident vaccinations. Rock Hill’s 29730 ZIP code has recorded 7,885 resident vaccinations, which is the second-highest amount in the county.

Lancaster’s 29720 ZIP code has 8,291 vaccinations. Indian Land’s 29707 ZIP code has 7,123 vaccinations, which is the second-highest in the county, according to DHEC.

Chester’s 29706 ZIP code has reported 2,817 vaccinations.

Local vaccine providers

Rock Hill Piedmont Medical Center Community Vaccination Clinic

• Galleria Mall, 2295 Dave Lyle Blvd., Rock Hill

How to schedule: The clinic is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday. Eligible patients should complete a vaccine request form. Patients will receive an email from the CDC with a link to register for an account in the federal Vaccine Administration Management System. Then patients can schedule an appointment.

The city also has a how-to guide. Or patients can call the clinic at 803-980-2684.

St. John’s United Methodist Church in Rock Hill is open from 1 to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Thursday to help people register.

MUSC-Health

• 800 West Meeting St., Lancaster
• 1 Medical Park Drive, Chester

This story was originally published March 17, 2021 at 1:38 PM.

Cailyn Derickson

The Herald

Cailyn Derickson is a city government and politics reporter for The Herald, covering York, Chester and Lancaster counties. Cailyn graduated from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has previously worked at The Pilot and The News and Observer.