Overview
- Three additional cases reported since Tuesday bring the Upstate total to 19 this year, with 15 tied to the current Spartanburg County outbreak.
- The new patients were already quarantining as close contacts, and officials say none were contagious in school settings.
- More than 150 unvaccinated students from two Spartanburg schools were ordered to quarantine after exposures, with that number down to 139 as of Tuesday.
- Cases have been linked to Global Academy and Fairforest Elementary, which reported vaccination rates of 17% and 85%, and investigators previously identified a Greenville exposure at a Crunch Fitness location.
- The state has deployed a mobile unit offering free MMR vaccinations in Spartanburg County from Oct. 16–23, as low regional coverage (92.8%) and rising religious exemptions elevate the risk of further spread within the national 2025 surge.