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Gov. Tate Reeves called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention s recent guidance on mask wearing foolish during a Thursday speech at the Neshoba County Fair, despite rocketing numbers of COVID-19 cases in the state, according to WAPT reporting.
On Tuesday, the CDC reversed mask guidelines, saying people across the nation should wear masks indoors in high transmission areas regardless of vaccination status. The Mississippi State Department of Health released a similar missive Wednesday afternoon. It has nothing to do with science, the governor said in reference to the CDC guidelines, WAPT reported.
The majority of Mississippi is considered a high COVID-19 transmission area because of low vaccination rates causing climbing cases of new infections, according to the CDC data tracker. On Thursday, the one-day count of new COVID-19 infections in Mississippi reached 1,908, with the seven-day total of new cases at 9,999. The state hasn t seen case coun
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