By Jason Evans

Staff Reporter

jevans@thepccourier.com

COUNTY — Hospital bed availability is “the real issue with COVID,” according to Pickens County administrator Ken Roper.

KEN ROPER

“We don’t want our hospitals to be overrun with cases,” he said during a Facebook Live update video Friday. “Since it’s a new virus to everyone, we don’t want our hospitals to be overrun, because if you get COVID and they can’t treat you, that’s a bad thing, but what if you break your arm and the hospital is full or you have a heart attack and the hospital is full? That’s part of the point here all along.”

Roper discussed state and county COVID-19 numbers in the video, saying the county had around 300 active cases and 1,793 total reported as of Thursday. That number has

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