JACKSON, Miss. — The children’s park near Lacy Lancaster’s home offers a clear view of the helipad at Ocean Springs Hospital, a few miles outside of Biloxi. Her two young daughters often plead to go to the playground, so they can watch flights touch down. Through their eyes, the sight is more awe-inducing than grim.
“You’re crying,” she said. “You’re putting yourself down a lot. There’s a lot of anger. There’s a lot of sadness.” Nasal cannulas are brought out to waiting rooms to deliver urgently needed oxygen. Patients spill into hallways. Parents of children like Donovan try to remain strong as their child who was just attending school a week ago receives steroids and shots meant to prevent blood clots administered to his stomach. Nurses, like Lancaster,as they struggle to turn heavily sedated patients facedown in hopes of expanding their lungs.
Flowers for the funeral service of Hinds County Sheriff Lee Vance arrive at the Mississippi Coliseum on Aug. 14, 2021. Vance died on Aug. 4 from cardiorespiratory failure as a result of Covid-19.The latest sign of the increasing strain on Mississippi’s hospital system came Wednesday, as state health officials announced that off-duty emergency medical technicians and certified paramedics would be allowed to provide aid to patients in the state’s hospitals.
Gov. Tate Reeves, a Republican, has repudiated calls to reimplement a statewide mask mandate in public schools this year. Instead, local school boards and superintendents will decide whether to require coverings. In rural Neshoba County, a hospital had to transfer a 2-year-old Covid patient to a pediatric hospital for care. Nearly half of Neshoba General’s 24 beds remain filled with Covid patients, including two in their 20s.
Last week, he said, hospital staff members were encouraged when about a fourth of tests administered at its drive-thru testing site came back positive. The highest average was 41 percent. One of her newer patients, a 23-year-old, told her she had planned to get vaccinated the next week — the virus had just caught her first.
“It’s better than me up in a hospital, or possibly being someone who’s not affected by Covid, but putting a loved one in the hospital or on the ventilator because I felt like I was immune,” he said.
Mississippians be like 'see? Plenty.'
oh no the fatties are dying off
That last tweet i went on a tangent sorry 😞 I feel for your situation is there no way for a special pop up hospital by the army like an army hospital
Kick the antivaxxers out. They don't trust doctors or medicine so why are they in hospital? Let them rely on the guy on barely passed BIO 101 but 'did his research' and posted a funny meme on Facebook. Save the medical resources for those of us who value them
Stay safe out there the next wave/virus upgrade and schools are safer at home where your more comfortable in fact I believe that where the world is going anyway my kids are Samsung lovers well my one daughter failed last year because her iPad kept dying I need to buy my own
They have no one to blame but themselves.
The good people of Texas/Mississippi/Florida etc must protect their children and families. They must protest their Republican governors/government, vote them out. Support President Biden's virus/vaccine policies
🤷♂️it’s the south we all new this was coming
My heart goes out to the hardworking hospital staff who are being stretched to the breaking point. Some hospitals are allowing workers to rotate out or go part time to catch their breath. A sad and unnecessary tragedy.
Welcome to the South. GA is almost at the same point.
Scare can surely make sick. African studies showed that bad spells on someone could kill a person! Now imagine the scare of the unseen 'bugs!' Report: 80% on ventilators died, more than other groups! Do we really know what we are doing?
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