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Mississippi State Department of Health officials announced on Tuesday that all drive-thru vaccination sites in the state will be closed on Wednesday due to forecasted storms, resulting in thousands of appointments being rescheduled.
Strong storms are expected to move into the northeast Mississippi area to continue through late Wednesday night. Most of the northeast Mississippi area is at a moderate risk level, also known as a level 4 out of 5. The most severe part of the storm is expected in Oxford around Wednesday afternoon.
The main threats of the storm include tornadoes, significant damaging winds and large hail, according to the National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center.
The Greenwood Commonwealth on allowing the sale of ephedrine and pseudoephedrine cold and sinus medications without a prescription:
There are two ways, one correct and one not, to look at the Mississippi Legislature’s decision to resume allowing the sale of certain cold and sinus medications without a prescription.
A bill that won almost unanimous support in both the House and Senate will, assuming Gov. Tate Reeves signs the legislation, begin in 2022 a two-year period in which ephedrine and pseudoephedrine can be sold without a prescription in products such as Sudafed and Claritin-D. It won’t quite be an over-the-counter sale because a national computer system must first verify that the customer isn’t making excessive purchases. But it clearly will be less of a nuisance.
The Columbus Dispatch
COLUMBUS, Ohio Every year, Arturo pays thousands of dollars in taxes from the revenue produced by his central Ohio-based painting company.
But he will never receive Social Security benefits. Or Medicare. Or Medicaid.
That s because Arturo, whose last name is not being used for his safety, is an undocumented immigrant from Mexico one of about 6 million who pay taxes annually, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
A report from the office shows that 50% to 75% of undocumented immigrants pay billions in taxes each year and have been since the Internal Revenue Service created a program 25 years ago allowing people without a Social Security number to file taxes.