COLUMBIA — South Carolina officials have reported four new COVID-19 deaths in Pickens County over the past week.

In addition to three elderly deaths, one middle-aged county resident died of the virus this week.

Pickens County continues to trend in the wrong direction in transmission rate, with the 14th-highest rate of South Carolina’s 46 counties. A two-spot drop from last week, the county currently sits at 4,147.09 cases per 100,000 residents

Meanwhile, the county is the state’s worst in the two-week

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