New daily COVID case report breaks history in Mississippi, with all ICU beds full in state

[TexasTowelie]

Source: Gulfport Sun Herald

The Mississippi State Department of Health released its largest single-day report of new COVID-19 cases of the entire coronavirus pandemic on Tuesday with 3,488 cases and 36 deaths.

Over a quarter of those cases were reported in the state’s southernmost six counties, with 928 new cases in the region. Jackson and Harrison counties each reported four new deaths on Tuesday.

State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs and other state officials have been sounding the alarm on rising cases in recent weeks, and he expressed his frustration in a Tuesday morning tweet.

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LouAnn Woodward, Vice chancellor for the University of Mississippi Medical Center, said that as of Monday morning there were no available ICU beds in the state.

Read more: https://www.sunherald.com/news/coronavirus/article253389083.html

[SoCalDavidS]

1. They'll Be Fine nt

[Warpy]

2. Looks like their faith should have been in medicine, not their preacher, politicians, and Pox

I find this horribly sad because it was so preventable. National PSAs during prime time would have helped.

What will really help is switching from carrot to stick--no jab, no job.

Quite a few states are breaking the records set last winter of cases/100,000. It's just sad to see people maimed and killed by political and religious dogma.

[Texaswitchy]

3. Do we have enough refrigerator trucks for all the dead.

The cremation business will be busy.

So sad and cruel.

Going to a child's funeral is rough.

[IronLionZion]

4. I hope Dems there are vaccinated

Mississippi and Arkansas joined Florida and Louisiana in the dark red severe risk category on Covid Act Now

[CountAllVotes]

5. Grim reality

Seems the hydroxychloroquine and the z-packs weren't the answer.

Sad to see the results obtained by acting upon the advice of a batch of greedy grifter thugs.

Perhaps some now realize that politicizing a public health crisis is a grave error in judgment.

[Stallion]

6. Can't Wait for the SEC Schools to Pack 60,000 to 100,000 into their Football Stadiums This Fall

I don't think I've heard any of the state schools planning anything else but full stadiums unlike last year

[pstokely]

8. although Ole Miss football claims a 100% rate

https://www.clarionledger.com/story/sports/college/ole-miss/2021/08/08/ole-miss-football-covid-vaccine-lane-kiffin-matt-corral-full/5531064001/

[MLAA]

7. My immediate thought:

After a heart attack and bypass surgery 2 years ago my husband was in ICU (1 nurse to 1 patient) for a few days followed by a step down unit (instead of one to one nurse to patient ratio it became 1 to 4) for over a week due to complications. Thankfully he is doing very well now.

With the unvaccinated using all available ICU resources and likely soon to be all step down units, there will be consequences to heart and other serious illness patients. If it were me unless there was a medical reason, an un-vaccinated person would be bumped down to a regular 1 nurse to 10 or so patient ratio floors to allow space for the vaccinated covid and other serious vaccinated emergency patients.

Since the vaccinated are more likely to survive I would think it is a reasonable deployment of limited resources.

[Texaswitchy]

9. Time for triage.

Time is coming fast.

Consequences for no shots.

Not kids or adults who cannot take the shot.