Mississippi On Track To Become No. 1 State For New Coronavirus Cases Per Capita
"We need to do something different," says Dr. LouAnn Woodward, who leads the University of Mississippi Medical Center. She says the state needs a mask mandate, but knows many people won't comply.
Mississippi is heading for a title that no state would want: It is on track to overtake Florida to become the No. 1 state for new coronavirus infections per capita, according to researchers at Harvard.
The state already faces high levels of diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and obesity.
As a result, the challenges specific to the coronavirus pandemic are "layered on top
