Governor Tate Reeves update on COVID-19

As the pandemic continues to affect the state of Mississippi, now numbers reaching over 8,000 in deaths because of covid-19 and the delta variant. Governor Tate Reeves responded in a press conference today, confirming that several healthcare personnel has been sent out to combat the staffing shortages in hospitals

“808 nurses, three certified nurses, twenty-two nurse practitioners, 193 respiratory therapists, and twenty paramedics. These are the number of healthcare personnel begging to deploy this morning to fifty hospitals across the state to meet the staffing shortages in our hospitals. I mentioned earlier that we are deploying to fifty hospitals today. We anticipate that all staffing requests for the sixty-one hospitals that made them; should be met no later than the end of the week.” -Governor Tate Reeves

Last week it was confirmed by the mayor that hospitals here in meridian are at capacity. During the press conference, reeves insured that the administration is making efforts to counter that problem across the state

“We are doing everything we can, to get reinforcement here because we know that we have significant additional capacity in our hospitals through hospital beds but we don’t have significant ability to add patients because of the lack of staffing in our hospitals so that’s what we’ve been focused on.”- Governor Tate Reeves

Lauderdale county has reached over total of cases 10,000 of COVID with 262 deaths. Covid-19 updates will continue.