With COVID-19 cases climbing into the thousands from the Delta variant and deaths once again reaching double digits, the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting asked Dr. Dan Edney for his insights as chief medical officer for the state Department of Health and a clinician.
Read MoreTamika Love, a graduate of Jackson State University and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, is a doctor of physical therapy at Baptist Hospital in Tennessee.
Read MoreJanice Driskell is a nurse practitioner, who works at in a clinic in Tupelo.
Read MoreMauda L. Monger is chief operating officer at My Brother’s Keeper Inc. in Jackson
Read MoreThe real Grinch this pandemic Christmas? Some wealthy foundations, a foundation president says.
Read MoreLacey Ward is a registered nurse in the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Adult Emergency Department.
Read MoreSince Gov. Tate Reeves lifted a statewide mask mandate two months ago, COVID-19 cases have skyrocketed to record levels in Mississippi, where there is now an “uncontrolled spread” of the disease.
Read MoreAll of Mississippi’s staff deaths from COVID-19 so far have involved for-profit nursing homes. Twice as many residents also caught the virus there, and nearly three times more died there, an analysis of health data by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting shows.
Read MoreThe coronavirus pandemic has hit the Mississippi Choctaw Band of Indians harder than any major city in the nation — and 10 times harder than the rest of Mississippi.
Read MoreTCHULA — This small town sits an hour from the suburbs of Mississippi’s capital city of Jackson, but it rests a world away.
Read MoreWith workers sick and workforces depleted, two Mississippi poultry plants have permission to ratchet up processing line speeds to increase production during the pandemic — at the risk, union leaders say, of worker safety in one of the country’s most dangerous industries.
Read MoreAs darkness descends on her home in Chunky, Marcy Mills reflects on her father’s final days.
“It broke my heart to know he had been in that room, lying there in silence, alone for around 10 days and nights. Can you even begin to imagine what mental torture that must have been?”
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