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.

COVID-19 kills twice as many in Mississippi’s poorest counties, three times higher than the wealthiest

The first plague hit long before the second one struck this year.

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Social upheaval has Mississippi voters searching for the soul of America

In a state where Christianity has been a weapon in the hands of those justifying segregation and the like, some are now summoning the faith as a tool to fight for social justice.

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.

Current COVID testing inside Mississippi prisons ‘inadequate and dangerous,’ lawyer says

Far more inmates inside Mississippi prisons have COVID-19 than are being detected, new reports suggest.

As union leaders call for slower line speeds, COVID-19 spreads in Mississippi poultry plants

With 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.

Nearly 150 Vermont prisoners in Mississippi positive for COVID-19

Nearly 150 Vermont inmates housed inside a private Mississippi prison have tested positive for COVID-19, but data posted online by the state Department of Corrections shows only 14 inmates infected in that prison.