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The Mississippi House passed Senate Bill 2212, which will grant 12 months of postpartum Medicaid coverage, by a 92-7 vote. Republican House Speaker Philip Gunn of Clinton voted against it.
A Mississippi educator has died of COVID-19 in DeSoto County, Miss., where the local sheriff is refusing to enforce mask mandates even amid widespread infection. For months, other top local officials have spread misinformation about the virus and downplayed the pandemic’s severity.
The DeSoto County Sheriff’s Department says it will not enforce Gov. Tate Reeves’ mask mandate or social-distancing orders even as COVID-19 ravages the county. Between the north Mississippi county’s three hospitals, only 52 hospital beds and one ICU bed remain available.
Mississippi House Rep. Price Wallace has apologized after he responded to President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris’ victory with a tweet hearkening back to the state’s Civil War past.
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