Our Stories on COVID-19
U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Mississippi Democrat, hopes Congress will pass “a bailout for everyday Americans instead of corporations” when Republicans and Democrats finally agree on an economic-stimulus compromise bill, his office told the Mississippi Free Press Tuesday evening.
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.”
Undocumented immigrants in the face of running out of money, so they continue to go out into the streets during the recommended quarantine. Some have savings to sustain themselves, but others do not.
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
We can’t contain the coronavirus. That’s not the point of all this “social distancing.” What they’re trying to do is slow the rate of infection. It has spread. It will spread. The rate of spread is the key.
“Social distancing,” the term used to describe proximity restrictions to prevent transmission of viruses, is a disruption of our cultural and social norms, and many people are still struggling with that. My family, friends, and hula brothers normally greet each other with hugs and kisses. We join hands in prayer.
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