Skip to content
Sky Cams
Business Partners
Community Calendar
Top Teacher
Live Healthy
Books to Kids
  • Live
  • News
  • Weather
  • Sports
  • Morning Break
  • Investigates
  • Community
  • Home
    • Programming Schedule
    • Download Our Apps
    • Submit Photos & Videos
  • News
    • Health
    • Ahmaud Arbery Case
    • Back 2 School
    • Coronavirus
    • Tracking the Vaccine
    • Crime
    • Murdaugh Case
    • Lowcountry News
    • WTOC Investigates
    • Education
    • Elections Center
    • Traffic
    • Gas Prices
    • National
  • First Alert Weather
    • Headlines
    • Sky Cams
    • Hurricane Center
    • Summer Weather Tips
    • Astronomical Tide And River Data
    • What Is A First Alert Weather Day?
  • Sports
    • End Zone
    • Eagle Report
    • Ghost Pirates
    • Clovers
    • Tormenta
    • Play of the Week
    • Golf
    • Bananas
  • Community
    • Birthday Club
    • Hometown Hero
    • Spring Spruce Up
    • Pet Pics
    • Calendar
    • Morning Break
    • Top Teacher
    • Books to Kids
  • Morning Break
    • Music
    • Health
    • DIY
    • Vacation
    • Style
    • Food
    • Outdoor
    • Art
    • Events
  • Podcasts
    • WTOC News Podcast
    • First Alert Weather Podcast
    • WTOC Sports Podcast
    • WTOC Inside Lane Podcast
  • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • Download Our Apps
    • Meet The Team
    • Internships
    • Antenna Tips
  • Contests
  • Latest Newscasts
  • Investigate TV
  • Circle Country Music & Lifestyle
  • Gray DC Bureau
  • PowerNation
  • Press Releases

Tracking The Vaccine

Tracking the Vaccine

CDC endorses non-MRNA COVID vaccine

Updated: Jul. 21, 2022 at 1:27 PM EDT
|
By Camille Syed
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is now endorsing a fourth type of COVID vaccine.

Tracking the Vaccine

Appointments available in Chatham, Bryan counties for children to get COVID-19 vaccine

Updated: Jul. 8, 2022 at 3:30 PM EDT
|
By WTOC Staff
Children six months and older will be able to get their COVID-19 vaccine in Chatham County beginning Monday, July 11, according to the Coastal Health District.

Tracking the Vaccine

Memorial Health doctor says hospital has seen rise in COVID hospitalizations

Updated: Jun. 23, 2022 at 4:51 PM EDT
|
By Sean Evans
Leaders at Memorial Health in Savannah say they are seeing an uptick in COVID-related hospitalizations.

National

FDA authorizes 1st COVID-19 shots for infants, preschoolers

Updated: Jun. 17, 2022 at 5:31 PM EDT
|
By LINDSEY TANNER
Vaccinations could begin as early as Monday or Tuesday.

Tracking the Vaccine

Savannah doctor discusses Covid-19 vaccines for kids under 5

Savannah doctor discusses Covid-19 vaccines for kids under 5

Updated: Jun. 15, 2022 at 6:02 PM EDT
|
By Sean Evans
An FDA’s advisory panel giving the greenlight on the covid-19 vaccine for America’s youngest population.

Tracking the Vaccine

No changes to Coastal Health District testing, vaccine sites for uninsured

Updated: Apr. 4, 2022 at 6:02 PM EDT
|
By Flynn Snyder
Federal funding that reimburses health providers for testing uninsured people for COVID-19 is set to run out. That means those without insurance could have to pay out of pocket if they want to be tested or get a vaccine.

Coronavirus

Zero active COVID cases at Memorial Health for first time in 734 days

Updated: Mar. 23, 2022 at 4:53 PM EDT
|
By WTOC Staff
For the first time in 734 days, there are no active COVID-19 patients at Memorial Health.

Health

East Georgia Regional Medical Center

East Georgia allows up to 2 visitors for non-COVID patients

Updated: Mar. 18, 2022 at 8:18 PM EDT
|
By Dal Cannady
East Georgia Regional’s latest adjustment for the number of visitors per patient is, as they say, a reflection of the current downward trend in COVID patients at the hospital and of COVID cases in the community.

Tracking the Vaccine

COVID-19 testing changes in Chatham Co.

Updated: Mar. 15, 2022 at 5:30 PM EDT
|
By Camille Syed
Some COVID-19 testing operations will be changing in Chatham County.

Coronavirus

Zero COVID patient admissions at Evans Memorial so far this month

Updated: Mar. 11, 2022 at 2:28 PM EST
|
By Flynn Snyder
Health officials are reflecting as we mark two years since the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a pandemic.

Coronavirus

Drive through COVID testing ends on Hilton Head Island

Updated: Mar. 7, 2022 at 5:54 PM EST
|
By Tyler Manion
Since case numbers are trending down Chaplin Park has shifted their recommendations, and drive through testing came to an end Monday.

Coronavirus

Beaufort Memorial Hospital

Lowcountry hospital has zero COVID cases in ICU

Updated: Mar. 3, 2022 at 3:38 PM EST
|
By Tyler Manion
Health systems across the country had been overwhelmed with COVID cases in emergency rooms and ICU’s. Now, there is good news out of one Lowcountry hospital.

Tracking the Vaccine

New masking guidance from CDC

Updated: Mar. 1, 2022 at 12:53 PM EST
|
By Sarah Winkelmann
New guidance from the CDC says that you do not need to mask inside anymore based on where you live.

Tracking the Vaccine

COVID-19 vaccine clinic this weekend in Statesboro

Updated: Feb. 24, 2022 at 6:27 PM EST
|
By Dal Cannady
Statesboro City Hall will be the spot for the city’s latest COVID-19 vaccine clinic Saturday.

Coronavirus

FILE GRAPHIC - Update on COVID-19

Bulloch Co. officials give update on COVID-19

Updated: Feb. 21, 2022 at 7:51 PM EST
|
By Dal Cannady
Communities across our region continue to battle the spread of COVID-19.

Coronavirus

Coastal Health District director discusses new Omicron sub-variant

Updated: Feb. 21, 2022 at 6:06 PM EST
|
By Mariah Congedo
Health experts say the Omicron surge does appear to be on the decline and cases and hospitalizations are as well, but they are keeping a close eye on a new sub-variant of Omicron.

Coronavirus

COVID-19 cases decline; at-home test usage increases

Updated: Feb. 17, 2022 at 2:48 PM EST
|
By Hayley Boland
The number of new COVID-19 cases in Chatham County is declining from the spike experienced after the holiday season.

Community

A healthcare worker prepares a dose of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccination at Queens Police...

Covid vaccine event this Valentine’s Weekend

Updated: Feb. 10, 2022 at 3:15 PM EST
|
By Danielle Lee
J.C. Lewis Primary Health Care Center, Healthy Savannah/YMCA of Coastal Georgia, and the Georgia Department of Health Coastal Health District will be hosting a Valentine’s Vaccination Event.

Tracking the Vaccine

covid-19 vaccine

Get the vaccine and receive a $50 gift card from the Long County Health Department

Updated: Feb. 8, 2022 at 5:06 PM EST
|
By Danielle Lee and Hayley Boland
The Long County Health Department will give the first fifty people who are vaccinated on Feb 28, a $50 Visa Gift card.

Tracking the Vaccine

At-home COVID tests, masks start arriving

Updated: Feb. 3, 2022 at 9:18 AM EST
|
By Mariah Congedo
As cases began to rise toward the beginning of the omicron surge, the Biden administration promised millions of masks and at-home COVID tests for people across the country.

Coronavirus

Lyons pharmacy still seeing steady increase in people getting COVID tested, vaccinated

Updated: Jan. 17, 2022 at 4:25 PM EST
|
By Mariah Congedo
The busy holiday season is weeks behind us, but some local pharmacists say they’re still seeing a steady increase of people getting tested for COVID-19 or vaccinated against it.

Coronavirus

Liberty Regional Medical Center

Liberty Regional Medical Center at full capacity

Updated: Jan. 14, 2022 at 6:02 PM EST
|
By Hayley Boland
Liberty Regional Medical Center is at full capacity again.

Coronavirus

More than 3,500 COVID tests administered in first week back at Civic Center site

Updated: Jan. 14, 2022 at 3:16 PM EST
|
By Mariah Congedo
It’s now been five days since COVID-19 testing picked back up at the Savannah Civic Center.

Political

The South Carolina House of Representatives returned to Columbia in January to pick up the...

More bills opposing vaccine mandates introduced in S.C. House

Updated: Jan. 12, 2022 at 9:21 PM EST
|
By Madison Martin
This week, Republican lawmakers introduced a couple of new bills in the House of Representatives to tackle COVID-19 vaccination mandates.
News
First Alert Weather
Sports
WTOC Investigates
Community
Watch Live
Programming Schedule
Contact Us
  • WTOC
  • P.O. Box 8086
  • Savannah, GA 31412
  • (912) 234-1111
FCC Public File
publicfile@wtoc.com - (912) 234-1111
FCC Applications
EEO Report
Closed Captioning/Audio Description
WTOC Careers
Terms of Service
Privacy Policy
Advertising
A Gray Media Group, Inc. Station - © 2002-2022 Gray Television, Inc.