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Mississippi, The Least Vaccinated State, Is Facing Its Worst COVID-19 Surge
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"We’re pretty much at a collapse-like system," warned a doctor at the state's largest hospital.
Mississippi, a state tied for the lowest rate of COVID-19 vaccinations, is in the middle of a coronavirus surge that most parts of the U.S. haven’t experienced in several months. There were 5,023 new cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi on Thursday, as well as 31 deaths from the virus and 166 ongoing outbreaks in long-term care facilities, state officials reported. A whopping 97% of new cases were in unvaccinated people, who also make up the majority of those hospitalized and dying from the disease. That’s the “largest number of COVID cases a day that we ever have” reported, state health officer Thomas Dobbs said Friday at a news conference.More Related News