'If we continue that trajectory, within the next 5-7 to 10 days, I think we're going to see failure of the hospital system in Mississippi.' Officials at UMMC say their numbers have 'exceeded where we were at any point during the pandemic.'
Hard-hit Mississippi has requested the federal government send a military hospital ship such as the USNS Comfort, state health official Jim Craig said Wednesday.
The University of Mississippi Medical Center has 127 COVID-19 patients, including 26 children, Dean LouAnn Woodward said Wednesday. About 90% of them are unvaccinated, she said. The dean warned,"The Mississippi hospital system will fail within the next five to seven or 10 days if the current trajectory continues.”
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