Overview

• Five newly identified cases this week were among more than 150 unvaccinated students already quarantining after school exposures, state officials said.
• The Department of Public Health has deployed a Mobile Health Unit to offer no-cost MMR vaccinations at multiple Spartanburg sites from Oct. 16–23.
• Twelve cases are tied to two Spartanburg County schools, and a Greenville County case is linked to a local gym; all current patients are unvaccinated.
• The Upstate’s student vaccination rate is 92.8%, the lowest in South Carolina, with nearly 10,000 Greenville and Spartanburg students holding religious exemptions.
• Officials report rapidly rising exemption rates since the pandemic and note the outbreak unfolds during a U.S. measles resurgence with nearly 1,600 cases and three deaths this year.