The Food and Drug Administration has granted full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine. Mississippi now expects the first of many vaccine mandates to come for health-care workers.
Mississippi may soon have a new class of independent primary-care providers, if the Legislature elects to end a long-standing oversight requirement for its nurse practitioners. The deregulation move would affect more than 4,250 general practitioners across the state, reducing the costs to practice and potentially aiding the state’s widespread primary-care deserts.
Mississippi reached a new high for COVID-19 hospitalizations, the State Department of Health reported this morning. Hospitals reported 1,008 patients with the virus and another 238 with suspected infections.
Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves lashed out today at “so-called experts” in the medical field as he continued to defy their pleas for him to reissue a statewide mask mandate.
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