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Dr. Daniel Edney told the Mississippi Free Press that his letters in defense of the Confederacy represented the perspective of a “young man with … very little experience of the real world, and a very limited knowledge of how others felt,” and that “over the last 20 to 25 years, God has placed me on a different path.”
The Mississippi State Board of Health has named Dr. Daniel P. Edney the new state health officer, the highest public-health office in Mississippi. Edney will replace the outgoing Dr. Thomas Dobbs as head of the Mississippi State Department of Health on Aug. 1.
The medical supply chain in Mississippi is still in a dire state of disrepair, and experts are warning that no clear exit strategy exists. Heavy-duty equipment, lab results and staff replenishment continue to waver even after months of low transmission of COVID-19.
The Mississippi State Department of Health is warning of growing cases across the state, but limited support for testing services has drastically scaled back available appointments at county health-department testing sites.
Pink House Defender Derenda Hancock felt numb as she stood outside the entrance to the Jackson Women’s Health Organization, waving her arms to beckon abortion patients to ignore the anti-abortion protesters accosting their cars and pull on into the parking lot. The night before, on Monday, May 2, a draft of the ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization had leaked, indicating the U.S. Supreme Court’s intentions to overturn Roe v. Wade.
After nearly 15 years at the Mississippi State Department of Health, State Health Officer Thomas Dobbs is stepping down at the end of July, marking an end to a long career in public health capped off with the pandemic of the century.
Ridgeland Mayor Gene McGee and Lindsey Beckham have distanced themselves from MassResistance, a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group, which appeared at a Ridgeland Board of Aldermen meeting in support of removing LGBTQ+ books from the local library.
Nancy New and Zach New of New Learning Resources Inc. have pleaded guilty to a series of federal charges including wire fraud and money laundering. They admit that they fraudulently acquired millions of dollars from the Mississippi Department of Education in reimbursement for special-needs education services and personally benefited from the money.
On April 18, the Mississippi Free Press spoke with Dr. Eric Topol, founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in La Jolla, Calif., about the second booster and the uncertain future of the pandemic more broadly.
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