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TUPELO ⢠It was mid-January 2020, and the top epidemiologist for the state of Mississippiâs public health agency was alarmed by skyrocketing pneumonia cases in the Wuhan province of China linked to a novel coronavirus.
Over nearly three decades working for the Mississippi State Department of Health, Dr. Paul Byers had monitored new disease outbreaks before, including H1N1, Ebola and Zika
But this time seemed different.
âI think this is the big one,â Byers said, showing the data to the MSDH agency chief, Dr. Thomas Dobbs.
Byers would soon be proven right.
Widely known at the time simply as âthe coronavirus,â the disease soon spread beyond China.
MSDH breaks down latest with vaccine distribution plans
MSDH breaks down latest with vaccine distribution plans By Courtney Ann Jackson | January 29, 2021 at 8:52 PM CST - Updated January 30 at 6:53 AM
JACKSON, Miss. (WLBT) - The demand for the COVID-19 vaccine is still greater than the supply, but the state is working to explain their decision making on the distribution.
You’ve heard a lot about who is currently eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in Mississippi, those over 65 and people 16 and up with pre-existing conditions. But maybe you’ve wondered how the state is deciding where to send the doses. It started out partly based on population and location space. But now, it’s shifting.