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As South Carolina prepared to distribute scarce doses of the new coronavirus vaccine last month, dozens of businesses and trade groups bent the governor’s ear to request a spot near the front of the line.
More than 60 industry associations, individual companies and advocacy groups petitioned to S.C. Gov. Henry McMaster’s office to have their workforces inoculated in Phase 1 of the state’s vaccine’s rollout, according to documents obtained by The Post and Courier through an open records request. And many were successful, the state’s vaccine plan shows.
Giants like Amazon, rideshare companies Uber and Lyft and government agencies such as the State Ports Authority and U.S. Postal Service joined the crowd, seeking priority spots for their thousands of employees in South Carolina. So did smaller businesses like Renewable Water Resources, a water…
