COVID-19 death curve rising rapidly as Mississippi averages 30 new deaths a day Mary Perez, The Sun Herald
Dec. 21 When the first case of coronavirus was identified March 11 in Mississippi, nobody could imagine the impact that would still be felt at Christmas.
On Monday, the Mississippi health department reported 1,167 new cases. This comes after two weeks of mostly 2,000 cases or more a day and a seven-day average for the state of 2,058 new cases a day. Numbers are typically lower on Mondays because of less reporting by private labs over the weekends.
There were 2 more deaths Monday, neither of which was in South Mississippi.