State advising doctors to consider giving coronavirus vaccine booster to some
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The Mississippi State Department of Health sent an alert to doctors Friday telling them they may want to give a coronavirus vaccine booster shot to certain people.
Posted: Jul 23, 2021 7:07 PM
Posted By: Craig Ford
JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) The Mississippi State Department of Health sent an alert to doctors Friday telling them they may want to give a coronavirus vaccine booster shot to certain people.
State epidemiologist Dr. Paul Byers said the third shot would be for certain high-risk groups whose immunity may be compromised.
Children are different in that they don t live in a bubble, said Henderson, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics Mississippi Chapter. They have siblings and parents that they have to interact with, so when you see a pediatric coronavirus case, you re likely to see multiple (infections).
Infections will continue to multiply
With the delta variant, infections will only continue to multiply if students, regardless of vaccination status, go to school mask-free. It is about 50% more contagious than the alpha variant, and has a 50% greater transmissibility rate than the original COVID-19 strain, according to Yale Medicine.
In the spring, if a student was infected with the alpha variant, they may have given it to one or two classmates, Oxford pediatrician Tanya Fitts said. But a student infected with the delta variant will transmit the virus to a large portion of classmates.
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Dr. Thomas Dobbs
Mississippi’s top public health official said Monday that the state is seeing a rapid increase in COVID-19 cases in July.
“4th wave is here,’’ Dr. Thomas Dobbs, the state health officer, wrote on Twitter.
The Mississippi State Department of Health said 2,326 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed Friday through Sunday. That is largest three-day increase of cases reported in the state since February.
As of Monday, the Health Department said Mississippi has had 329,130 confirmed cases of the virus since the start of the pandemic in the spring of 2020. The department said 7,468 people in the state had died from the virus.
1,199 cases, 9 deaths as of Wednesday afternoon, MSDH says
Source: MSDH
The MSDH reported 1,199 new cases of the coronavirus and 9 new deaths as of Wednesday afternoon.
Posted: Jul 22, 2021 11:31 AM
Updated: Jul 22, 2021 11:31 AM
Posted By: Zac Carlisle
JACKSON, Miss. (WTVA) - The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 1,199 new cases of the coronavirus and 9 new deaths as of Wednesday afternoon.
The deaths happened in Forrest, Harrison (3), Hinds (4) and Warren counties.
Since the beginning of the pandemic in Mississippi in March 2020, the MSDH has reported 331,863 total cases and 7,494 total deaths.
During the same period, the MSDH also reported 315,209 recoveries.