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A Marion County, Miss., woman is worried about her grandmother’s safety after an employee at her nursing home in Columbia tested positive for COVID-19. The granddaughter contacted the Mississippi Free Press last night saying that the facility, The Grove, had disclosed the news to her family that evening. Shortly afterward, the nursing home sent a letter to residents’ families.
Roadside mannequins are inviting residents of Moss Point, Miss., to resume shopping at a local clothing store, restaurants are returning their dine-in services, and churches
As the number of confirmed cases continues to rise, mayors and local leaders are left to implement a patchwork of measures to try to combat the coronavirus’ spread throughout their own communities, some more strict than others.
For the first time, a Mississippi patient who tested positive for COVID-19, the novel coronavirus, has died. The Mississippi State Department of Health today announced the death of a Hancock County man between the ages of 60 and 65 who had “chronic underlying conditions.”
The University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson is taking significant steps to combat the possible “tidal wave” of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, throughout the
Mayors from Oxford to New Orleans Watching ‘Model of What’s to Come’ A new walk-in clinic in Hattiesburg, Miss., will focus solely on diagnosing and
After Hurricane Katrina battered the Gulf Coast in 2005, then-Mississippi NAACP President Derrick Johnson saw first-hand what happens “when government is not operating in a
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