MISSISSIPPI, Aug 14 ― The crush of new Covid-19 infections in Mississippi has become so dire that the state has turned to efforts reminiscent of the earliest days of the US pandemic, when a field hospital was set up in New York's Central Park and a medical ship was moored in the Hudson River.
“The ask for the ship was as much about the over 500 personnel that come with it as it was about the actual physical facility,” Reeves said at a news conference yesterday. Low vaccination rates and the more infectious Delta variant of the coronavirus have driven a surge of Covid-19 cases across the United States, overwhelming some state medical systems.
Republican governors in southern states such as Florida and Texas have banned mask mandates and threatened to withhold funding from schools that impose them, however. The White House is considering reimbursing school officials who lose pay from flouting the ban.The number of daily cases across the country has doubled in the last two weeks, according to a Reuters tally, reaching a six-month peak, while the average number of daily deaths has increased 85 per cent in the last 14 days.
Brown said that a statewide indoor mask mandate she issued this week, along with rising fears of this fourth Covid surge, is not the news her constituents hoped to be hearing by late summer.
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