Former Collins homecoming queen sings national anthem at NBA game
Collins native sings national anthem at NBA game By Vanessa Pacheco | March 5, 2021 at 1:20 PM CST - Updated March 5 at 2:06 PM
COLLINS, Miss. (WDAM) - For Women’s History Month, WDAM is putting the spotlight on a Collins native and healthcare worker who works around the clock to help defeat COVID-19 and recently had the opportunity to sing at an NBA game.
In February, Katrina Dennis was selected to sing the national anthem at an Atlanta Hawks basketball game.
“I’ve never sang in front of that many people before, but I just asked God to make it to where I could enjoy the process, and I actually did,” Dennis said. “I was blessed to be able to do it. I was honored that I was chosen to represent healthcare workers all over the world.”
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The seven victims all fell ill with diarrhoea, vomiting and bleeding after attending the burial of a nurse. The cases are the first confirmed since a deadly Ebola epidemic ravaged the country, along with Liberia and Sierra Leone, five years ago.
The Guinean government has begun contact tracing and isolating suspected cases, while newly developed vaccines will be acquired through the World Health Organization (WHO), officials said.
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The WHO describes Ebola as a severe acute viral illness. Early symptoms are similar to flu and malaria and include the sudden onset of fever, intense weakness, muscle pain, diarrhoea, vomiting and both internal and external bleeding. Most patients killed by the disease die from blood loss, organ failure or shock.