(Columbia, SC) -- Harvard researchers are warning that 40-percent of South Carolina counties need stay-at-home orders to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.
This comes after a new high in hospital beds being used for COVID-19 patients at over 13-hundred beds compared to just over 12-hundred on Monday.
The state's number of coronavirus patients is 61-percent higher than it was two weeks ago.
John Hopkins University ranks the state the third-highest for the percentage of positive tests over the last week.