Mississippi Imposing Few Restrictions on Mardi Gras, Despite 1305 Percent COVID Case Jump
Despite a growing number of COVID-19 cases due to the Omicron variant, Mississippi Mardi Gras events are going forward as scheduled with little to no restrictions.
The events began Wednesday in the city of Biloxi with a Twelfth Night Celebration. A crowd of people largely without masks gathered for the event at a lighthouse.
Health experts told the Sun-Herald, a newspaper based in Biloxi, the state's upcoming events are likely to spread the virus. Johns Hopkins University researchers reported Mississippi has the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths in the country, currently at over 10,520. Over the last two weeks, the daily new case average for the state has jumped by 1,305 percent.
According to the Mayo Clinic, this spike began mid-December. The average positive test rate in mid-November was 5.7 percent, but by mid-December, that number had more than doubled. As of January 8, the rate has skyrocketed to 42 percent.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mississippi-imposing-few-restrictions-on-mardi-gras-despite-1305-percent-covid-case-jump/ar-AASD35S
Let's go Darwin.
= new reply since forum marked as read
We are adopting the Swedish model and just "living with it" now, at least most of the country. Hopefully, it won't lead to a more lethal variant.
