Abbott antibody testing cleared by FDA, OSHA investigates COVID-19 complaints, real estate pulses on

Abbott antibody test cleared for emergency use

A fourth COVID-19 test from Abbott Laboratories, based in Illinois with a location in Liberty, has received Emergency Use Authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The lab's SARS-CoV-2 IgG serology test was 100% accurate in its ability to exclude false negatives in patients tested 14 days after first showing symptoms of the virus.

S.C. restaurants can offer limited dine-in services

Establishments will have to follow several guidelines, including only allowing 50% of posted occupancy and spacing tables six to eight feet apart. Additional cleaning and sanitizing guidelines, as well as additional health checks for employees, will also be implemented.

S.C. OSHA investigating 99 coronavirus complaints

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has received more than 300 phone calls and emails related to COVID-19 since mid-March; 135 wound up being official complaints, meaning the queries were related to issues covered by OSHA.

Real estate market pulses through shutdown

Even as South Carolina’s economy continues to shutter under the weight of the COVID-19 shutdown, site selection, construction and new commercial real estate leasing press on across the Upstate — if not in new directions

Upstate Giving

Greenville Women Giving grant to house 40 to 80 families

Greenville Women Giving has offered United Ministries a, $80,000 grant for its Interfaith Hospitality Network’s homelessness ministry. Using the grant, United Ministries plans to use the grant to purchase two single-family homes in Greenville County as interim homes. Greenville Women Giving has offered 123 community grants totaling more than $6.5 million since its founding in 2006.

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Coping with Covid: Conversation with Dr. Matt Bitner

SC Biz News talks to Dr. Matt Bitner, chairman of emergency medicine for Prisma Health, about COVID-19, the impact on businesses and communities, and how the novel coronavirus outbreak is reshaping how health care is delivered across South Carolina.
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