Most COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths are now among unvaccinated Mississippians.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n All Mississippians aged 5 or older are now eligible for vaccination at hundreds of convenient locations statewide. Vaccinations and boosters are free<\/strong> to all Mississippians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Homebound persons<\/strong><\/strong> can get help with COVID-19 vaccination by sending e-mail to COVIDHomebound@msdh.ms.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Host a vaccination event<\/strong> for your business or organization by writing to VaccineEvent@msdh.ms.gov<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Follow daily vaccination progress: Mississippi COVID-19 Vaccination Report<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n More about vaccinations and where to get one<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Positive test results reported to MSDH between August 31 and September 6, 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 31 and September 6, 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 Schools are currently dismissed for the holidays. COVID-19 school reports will resume the second week in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Earlier COVID-19 school reports<\/a><\/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 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are rising rapidly in the state as the Omicron variant spreads. Masks should be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":116596,"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":[16207,16051,16052,6861,5,17459],"class_list":["post-116594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-covid-19","tag-cases","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-death","tag-mississippi","tag-vaccinations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed-1.png?fit=1024%2C642&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116594","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=116594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/unnamed.png\")
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nFind a Vaccination or Booster<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
COVID-19 Case and Death Summary<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Cases reported in the past week: 30,844<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Deaths reported in the past week: 72<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Total Mississippi COVID-19 cases: 566,102<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Total Mississippi COVID-19 deaths: 10,492<\/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
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nState Trend<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
Cases by Date of Illness<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nDeaths by Date of Occurrence<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\nWhat You Can Do<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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