More than 1,162,000<\/strong> people have now been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in Mississippi. Vaccination is effective at preventing COVID-19 illness, and especially hospitalization and death. Vaccination benefits you even if you have already had COVID-19. Most COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are now among unvaccinated Mississippians.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Positive test results reported to MSDH between August 17 and August 23, as of 3 p.m. yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n COVID-19 related deaths reported to MSDH or determined from death certificate reports between August 17 and August 23, as of 3 p.m. yesterday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An outbreak is considered any confirmed COVID-19 case among LTC facility residents or employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 835 Mississippi schools have reported COVID-19 data for the week ending August 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New COVID-19 school reports are published on the MSDH website by Wednesday each week. (Note:<\/strong> This week’s report may be delayed to give schools affected by Hurricane Ida more time to report their data.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Mississippi’s hospital burden remains exceptionally high, as a shortage of adult and children’s ICU beds continues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This chart tracks COVID-19 cases according to the date the person first became ill, rather than the date of test results. It’s the standard way of following the course of a disease in a population. The black average line helps identify upward or downward trending. (In the few cases where date of illness has not yet been determined, testing date is used.) Since we are still receiving reports of illnesses that began up to two weeks ago, expect the more recent dates on this chart to change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you have tested positive for COVID-19 and may be at risk for serious illness, mAb treatment can reduce your risk of severe symptoms and hospitalization. Details and treatment providers<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Vaccinations MSDH vaccination and testing sites in central and south Mississippi are closed Tuesday, August 31. More information More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":113465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-08-31-COVID-VaccinationStatus.png?fit=1053%2C813&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021-08-31-COVID-VaccinationStatus.png?resize=640%2C494\")
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nCOVID-19 Case and Death Summary<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Cases reported in the past week: 19,933<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Deaths reported in the past week: 251<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Total Mississippi COVID-19 cases: 436,722<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Total Mississippi COVID-19 deaths: 8,409<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Long-Term Care Facilities<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
K-12 Schools<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Hospitalizations<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
COVID-19 Hospitalizations by Date<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nState Trend<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Cases by Date of Illness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDeaths by Date of Occurrence<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nWhat You Can Do<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY (mAb) TREATMENT<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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