{"id":87257,"date":"2020-05-08T17:59:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-08T22:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=87257"},"modified":"2020-05-08T18:01:01","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T23:01:01","slug":"mississippi-covid-19-cases-rise-to-9090-and-409-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/mississippi-covid-19-cases-rise-to-9090-and-409-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Mississippi COVID-19 Cases Rise to 9,090 and 409 Deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today <strong>Mississippi State Department of Health<\/strong> is reporting 404 new cases of <strong>COVID-19<\/strong> in <strong>Mississippi <\/strong>and 13 new deaths (including 3 from prior weeks identified through death certificate investigation). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mississippi&#8217;s total of COVID-19 cases since March 11 now stands at 9,090, with 409 deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>54 of the new cases reported today were among residents in long-term care facilities, and there are now 113 active outbreaks of COVID-19 in long-term care facilities (where an outbreak is one or more cases among residents or staff). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MSDH has added a new chart to the collection of COVID-19 data reporting: deaths by day, with deaths in long-term care facility residents highlighted. This is the most critical measure of Mississippi&#8217;s COVID-19 activity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with charts of hospitalizations be day and illnesses by day, it shows exactly how COVID-19 is affecting Mississippi over the course of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-08-MS-CoronaVirus-Chart.png?resize=640%2C380\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-08-MS-CoronaVirus-Chart.png?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-08-MS-CoronaVirus-Chart.png?resize=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-08-MS-CoronaVirus-Chart.png?resize=768%2C456&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>More details of COVID-19 in the state, along with preventive steps to take against coronavirus, are online at\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/healthyms.com\/covid-19\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/HealthyMS.com\/covid-19<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Mississippi Coronavirus Hotline<\/strong> is the best way to get your questions about COVID-19 answered. Call 877-978-6453 from 7 am to 11 pm seven days a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-08-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?resize=640%2C640\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-08-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?w=695&amp;ssl=1 695w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-08-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-08-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-08-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?resize=50%2C50&amp;ssl=1 50w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-08-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?resize=186%2C186&amp;ssl=1 186w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Mississippi State Department of Health is reporting 404 new cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi and 13 new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":87259,"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":[19],"tags":[16052,16256,5,16175,16144],"class_list":["post-87257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-covid-19","tag-deaths","tag-mississippi","tag-mississippi-coronavirus-hotline","tag-mississippi-state-department-of-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/2020-05-08-MS-CoronaVirus-Map.png?fit=695%2C695&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87257","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=87257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}