Mississippi’s overlooked COVID-19 threat: Families with many generations under one roof

Public Integrity analysis shows 19% live in multigenerational households in Mississippi, increasing vulnerability to the virus

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.