On the frontlines of COVID fighting fears and misinformation

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.

Physical therapy ‘absolutely vital’ to some COVID patients, healthcare worker discovers

Tamika 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.

Tupelo nurse practitioner adds up COVID’s cost in lives and job security

Janice Driskell is a nurse practitioner, who works at in a clinic in Tupelo.

Nonprofit COO expands minority health outreach to include rapid COVID-19 testing

Mauda L. Monger is chief operating officer at My Brother’s Keeper Inc. in Jackson

Millionaire foundation head says many wealthy Americans falling short in responding to needs of nation’s most vulnerable

The real Grinch this pandemic Christmas? Some wealthy foundations, a foundation president says.

From the Frontlines: Emergency nurse faces daily battle with COVID-19

Lacey Ward is a registered nurse in the University of Mississippi Medical Center’s Adult Emergency Department.

Two months after mask mandate ends, Mississippi sees record ‘uncontrolled spread’ of COVID-19

Since 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.

Trump’s Postal Service forbids aiding mail-in voters. Absentee voting just became more of a nightmare in Mississippi.

In yet another blow by the Trump administration against mail-in voting, the U.S. Postal Service is forbidding postmasters from witnessing absentee ballots as they have done in the past.

No mask mandate at Mississippi polls. ‘This is absolute insanity,’ public health expert says

In Mississippi, those entering a school, a Wendy’s or a Walmart must wear masks to prevent the spread of COVID-19, but those entering packed polling places don’t have to don one.

Nearly three times more COVID deaths in Mississippi’s for-profit nursing homes, analysis shows

All 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.

More Choctaws have died of COVID than those who died of the disease in Hawaii. Or Alaska. Or Wyoming.

The 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.

Holmes County was ‘already off the cliff with no safety net. Then COVID came.’

TCHULA — This small town sits an hour from the suburbs of Mississippi’s capital city of Jackson, but it rests a world away.