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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.

Now we play the waiting game. <strong> Unfortunately, I reside in South Carolina</strong>--wedged tightly to the east among the Deep South states--<strong> which has already—no surprises here--fallen behind in the COVID-19 vaccine drive.</strong> Residents have been instructed to wait for the appropriate age phase. Only then can they utilize a vax locator in order to find sites that will administer the vaccine. Once a location is selected, they will then call the associated phone number to make an appointment if enough vaccines are available. As fate would have it, I am, at age 67, in Phase 1c which will not even launch until late spring 2021 in this state.<strong> As South Carolina ranks #36 in health care, I can only sigh, shake my head and pray </strong> that when my age group arises, vaccines will still be at hand. <strong> Meanwhile, in my nativeTexas, my 90-year-old mother, my brother and my sister-in-law (both 63) have already received their first doses of the vaccine.</strong> Too little, too late may spell severe illness and even death for some Palmetto State residents who continue to wait, wait, wait.