Health leaders reveal âbreakthrough casesâ as they track COVID-19 Share Updated: 6:59 AM CDT Apr 14, 2021 Share Updated: 6:59 AM CDT Apr 14, 2021
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Show Transcript EXPLAINS WHAT HEALTH LEADERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THESE BREAKTHROUGH CASES STATE HEALTH LEADERS - ANNOUNCING TUESDAY, 78 BREAKTHROUGH CASES OF COVID CONFIRMED IN MISSISSIPPI. THAT S WHEN A FULLY VACCINATED PERSON BECOMES INFECTED WITH THE VIRUS. ONE COVID BREAKTHROUGH DEATH IS REPORTED IN THE STATE.
275 new COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths reported in Miss. Wed. MSDH also is reporting over 297,362 Mississippians are presumed to have recovered from the coronavirus. (Source: KCBD Graphic) By Renaldo Hopkins | April 14, 2021 at 9:45 AM CDT - Updated April 14 at 9:46 AM
PINE BELT, Miss. (WDAM) - The Mississippi State Department of Health reports the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the state has risen to over 308,100.
MSDH reported 275 COVID-19 cases and three additional deaths on Wednesday, bringing the state total to 308,111 cases and 7,122 deaths.
Positive test results may have been made during the past several days and represent individuals who became ill a week ago or more.
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JACKSON ⢠Medical marijuana was hardly mentioned Wednesday as attorneys argued over whether Initiative 65, the voter-approved pot legalization program, should be overturned by the Mississippi Supreme Court.
Instead the debate focused on congressional districts â and a seemingly innocuous section of the Mississippi Constitution that suggests there are five districts when the state now has just four. This is not about the wisdom of legalizing medical marijuana, it is about the plain language of (the constitution), said attorney Kaytie Pickett, representing Madison Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler, who filed the lawsuit challenging the initiative.
Still, the outcome of the case will decide whether Mississippians have access to legal pot anytime soon. And it might cast legal doubt on past ballot initiatives approved by Mississippi voters, while disrupting initiative signature-gathering drives just getting started.
Mississippi health officials: Fully vaccinated people account for 78 positive COVID-19 tests, 1 death Sarah Haselhorst, Mississippi Clarion Ledger
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Since being fully vaccinated, state health officials said 78 people in the state have tested positive for COVID-19. One person died. We knew we would see some because (the vaccine s) not 100% effective at preventing any illness, State Health Officer Thomas Dobbs said during a Tuesday media briefing. It s been fortunately an uncommon thing.
The Moderna vaccine is more than 90% effective against COVID-19 six months after the second dose is administered, according to the most recent study. Pfizer said its vaccine is 91.3% effective in preventing the coronavirus. While Johnson & Johnson has a lower effectiveness against COVID-19 at 66%, it s highly successful at preventing hospitalization and death in infecte