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State health leaders reflect on pandemic at one-year mark

TUPELO • It was mid-January 2020, and the top epidemiologist for the state of Mississippi’s 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. “I think this is the big one,” 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 “the coronavirus,” the disease soon spread beyond China.

We have had so many deaths : State health officials reflect on year of COVID-19, look to the future

‘We have had so many deaths’: State health officials reflect on year of COVID-19, look to the future ‘We have had so many deaths’: State health officials reflect on year of COVID-19 By Chancelor Winn | March 9, 2021 at 7:05 AM CST - Updated March 9 at 7:05 AM BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Several developments are being made in the COVID-19 vaccination effort across Mississippi as access and availability continue to grow. State health officials got together Monday to examine the COVID-19 pandemic as Mississippi approaches March 11, which marks the one-year anniversary of the first case in our state. For the last year, COVID-19 has been on the forefront of everyone’s minds and, as state health officials look closely at the previous 12 months of the pandemic, MSDH’s Senior Deputy and Director of Health Protection Jim Craig feels this tragedy has helped create heroes.

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