The Mississippi State Department of Health issued the following statement.
Today the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) reports the first case of the COVID-19 Omicron variant in the state. The case is in a fully vaccinated individual who recently traveled to New York. The patient was not hospitalized.
Mississippi joins 16 other states (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, and Washington) in the U.S. that have reported cases of Omicron.
“We were prepared for the appearance of this variant in Mississippi, and we need to remember that Delta is still a very active variant of COVID-19 currently in the state, as well,” said MSDH State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs.
While information on the infection rate and severity of the Omicron variant is still unknown, Dobbs said the best protection at this point is the COVID-19 vaccinations and booster.
“Vaccines remain the best public health measure to protect people from COVID-19, slow the transmission rate, and reduce the likelihood of new variants emerging. COVID-19 vaccines are highly effective at preventing severe illness, hospitalizations, and death,” he said.
MSDH is also experiencing a minimal increase in the number of COVID patients in the hospital and a minimal increase of COVID patients in the ICU and on vents.
Vaccinations for all Mississippians 5 and older can be found from healthcare providers, FQHCs, independent and retail pharmacies, and county health departments. Appointments at county health departments can be scheduled online at covidvaccine.umc.edu, or by calling the
COVID-19 hotline at 866-498-4948 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. seven days a week.
50 comments:
Why didn’t we ever name the flu each year ? Just like they name hurricanes.
"FKA" THE COMMON COLD. Folks better wake the fug up !!
@12:36 - Sigh, this guy. Yeah, the common cold killed 10k people in Mississippi since March of 2020.
Or if you can’t count, 1 in every 300 Mississippians have died of COVID-19 thus far.
Not to mention the tens of thousands more hospitalized. Ever been hospitalized with “the common cold?” Yeah, didn’t think so.
Go back to eating glue paste and horse paste please.
Died “with” Covid. Not necessarily from covid.
12:45 If you really believe all the deaths in Ms were due to Covid and just people who died of other maladies while also testing positive for Covid then your head is filled with something from the rear end of a horse.
12:45 If you really believe all the deaths in Ms were due to Covid and just people who died of other maladies while also testing positive for Covid then your head is filled with something from the rear end of a horse.
December 6, 2021 at 12:45 PM = Fake outrage
UMMC couldnt tell me if I had the Alpha variant or the Delta variant, one of which I had after being vaccinated, now Omicron is everywhere? BS. Omicron is Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) or Vaccine Associated Disease Enhancement (VADE), all hiding behind a new scaraint!
Right here at Christmas time. How convenient. Almost like a plandemic.
12:45 : Ummmmm SCIENCE HIMSELF said the COLD VIRUS is riding MEGATRON. Wait, Omnicron ? Omma..ommbamacron ? Pfffft....COMMON COLD with a touch of vaxxed.
Raise your hand if your Covid sample variant has been given to you when tested!
I literally just returned from my annual business trip to Fujian (where I have several investments) so I may have brought it back.
ngl I absolutely love China.
Every case I have seen listed was a fully vaccinated person. Yet, the MSDH and Dobbs continue to say the best protection at this point is the COVID-19 vaccinations and booster. Yet, no one....NO ONE has claimed or shown that Omicron has any symptoms other than a cough or a head ache and no hospitalizations. Yet, the sky is falling.....again. Puh-leeze!!!!
One thing we know for absolute sure, the vaccines are better than nothing. Sometimes.
It's endemic now. Not worth everyone freaking out again with stupid cloth masks, runs on toilet paper, lock downs, and whatnot. Time to move on. This issue has morphed into pure fear porn. The media feeds us, our leaders strip our rights...all in the name of science and in the face of mass extermination and healthcare collapse.
It's gotten ridiculous.
I would add for 12:45 that to find out which variant you have costs thousands of dollars. Lol, and if you notice the testing paper after you have been swabbed ? It says SARS ! Sit down and ask yourself (and you won't) why this is . Then for good measure ask someone else. Covid is real...the pandemic is not.
Good ole Mississippi. Geniuses everywhere.
Love my home state.
Covid has become an indu$try. Careers are being made because of Covid, and Fauci has become a rock star (in his own mind).
After Omicron, there will be more variants to keep the money and power coming.
Jesus H Christ, here we go again. Your gonna die but most likely not from Omicron. Pissed off husband, pissed off wife, pissed off girlfriend, drinking, drinking and driving possibly to and from girlfriend, husband, etc house. You get the picture.
3:11 My thoughts exactly.
I see COVID Karen has awoken, her shrill voice screaming at one and all to deny reality and take no vaccination.
Eureka moment. Mississippi is the most unhealthy state and also has the most Covid deaths per capita. Now if that isn't proof that Covid was created to wipe out a certain portion of the population I don't know what is. In other news....Santa Claus has just gotten a positive test. Joes off the hook.
Had an immediate family member develop Guillian-Barre syndrome post booster.
Granted it can happen to anyone, but watching an otherwise healthy 40 year old suddenly use a walker due to a booster shot for an illness that would have likely been a severe cold for her was tough.
Its odd that nobody talks about the reactions to these endless jabs in such close succession.
I see the conspiracy theorists who have nothing better to do than spend all day on YouTube were busy on this site while the rest of us were at work… what a surprise!
Get vaccinated. Quit worrying as much.
Move about the cabin.
It’s just not that hard.
I have a hard time believing those who can't differentiate viruses make comments, they don't know they can ask which viruses their annual shot protects against, don't know that those with underlying conditions who died of Covid weren't at risk of imminent death( the "they would have died anyway" can be disproved with statistical data if you bothered), and that so many of you are willing to broadcast to others ( assuming you say this to " friends") you have zero math skills.
And, last but not least, every single person I know ( and admittedly, my peers are upper middle to upper class and educated) who were enthusiastic Trump supporters and Republican and never a RINO , now ( save two in 100s) has zero respect for the hard core, anti vax, folks. Indeed, more than a few have lost income because they were unwilling to even try to be a good citizen and take any measures to protect others.
The worst is some physicians never understood the advancements out of their specialty were important these past decades. They are still practicing medicine current in their first four years of med school and more than a few of us find that scary.
Yea it’s here and us fully vaccinated and boosted folks with a little common sense are living well, unvaccinated folks good luck! I have no problem with the choice you made. I still chose to wear a mask when I can’t stay 3-6 ft away from people who’s lifestyle and vaccination status I have no way of knowing. Don’t look at me funny when you see me with a mask because, I tend to mind my own business and ignore and avoid people anyway.
Still, nobody wants to talk about the fat ass part of the covid equation. If you are overweight/obese, then you likely have other health problems and are more susceptible to problems if & when you get any covid variant. I’m just sayin’…….
@5:06
I go out of my way to spray extra toward smug and fearful people like you when I sneeze.
Unvaxxed
Uncompromised
Unafraid
3:11 Might I suggest you look at the infection rates from the blue states vs the red states, then look at the percentage of the population of said states that are vaccinated and have gotten infected anyway. Then maybe also check out the obesity rates and diabetes rates in those states compared to Mississippi and think about the people in that demographic that were hospitalized compared to the rest of us. Maybe if you did some research and reading instead of listening to the mainstream media you'd see a correlation between all those factors and realize that those of us healthy individuals who are not obese or have other mitigating factors might be waiting for the vaccine from Novavax that is based on proven technology, not the experimental MRNA ones with known, serious cardiac side effects. (look them up, don't trust the media) The testing shows the Novavax vaccine has little or no side effects and will be out in a few months. You might like being a guinea pig for an unproven vaccine that might cause you to have serious heart issues in a few years. I don't.
They're already pushing the "gonna overwhelm the healthcare system" BS again.
@6:09pm - I bet you were so proud and thought you sounded so smart when you wrote that eh? Bless your heart.
@6:29pm - You forgot to add uneducated and unintelligent to your “un” list.
Looks like the limp wristed Covid Gestapo are coming back out to piss and moan. Just look at this way, vaccinated or not, your gonna die in the end.
More of you will get sick and many will die because you became scientist visa Internet U.
Lost much of my hearing after shot #2. No way in hell will get Fauci's booster.
If getting the covid therapeutic is the only way to keep numbers down and MS numbers are low now doesn't that mean everyone's gotten their shot?
Hospitalizations in Maine are the highest they’ve ever been with 99.9% of seniors with at least one dose and ~60% of seniors having had a booster shot. Vermont currently has one of the highest infection rates in the country even with 95% of adults with one dose.
All cause mortality is higher this year than last year. Any of y'all not yet in the covid cult but thinking about signing up for bi-yearly (or more) boosters should do yourself a favor and wake the hell up.
I’m wondering when the variants will run together and someone gets two at the same time. I guess by then we can name it the Pi Kappa Alpha
@5:54am, isn’t that what happens at the hospitals? How many people have inadvertently been “vaccinated” with several variants unknowingly while receiving treatment? Oh, I forgot, only churches, family gatherings, etc. are super-spreaders.
10:26
Your ignorance is on display.
The vaccines not only help stop the spread of the virus but if one does contract the virus while vaccinated the severity of the illness is reduced almost 100%.
You should certainly stop thinking because you cannot. And more importantly you should stop typing what you are thinking. You are infecting the populace with your stupidity.
Jesus man.
7:24
Why is it when someone doesn’t agree with or think like your kind then your only defense is to call them stupid? Do you seriously think that anyone takes offense by you calling them stupid? Please find a new means to reason with people and find common ground. This will never work and in fact, has the opposite effect you desire.
Jokes on you 7:24.....there is no 10:26 ! Furthermore , your comment has to be sarcasm or the most stupid one EVER posted here. The vaccines haven't stopped anything and immune comped folks are still getting ganked after 3 jabs ! Even Dr. Anthony Science has said this from his own mouth. Me thinks folks like you are the virus.
The vaccine is considered to be the best and most quantifiable preventative measure for dealing with the covid pandemic and therefore it makes sense to make vaccination the primary measure for getting through the nightmare. Lining up everyone and stabbing them in the arm is $billions cheaper than running blood test to verify antibodies of entitled victims who want "special" consideration.
There is a doctor who writes for the Northside Sun newspaper who says that 200 people die each week from the jab itself. This is scary stuff.
8:19, About 1,000 people a day are currently dying of COVID in the U.S., and we’re in a valley on the graph. Is that 5x more scary?
This must be how Coastal residents feel with each Hurricane Season.
Over dramatized predictions that are usually uneventful for anyone outside of the media.
8:16 : Not uneventful for Home Depot and certain weather folks who get kickbacks from said Home Depot.
Already pushing "sister" variant folks. My sources are telling me that Godzilla has be sighted in the Gulf near Lake Charles.
Most comments here fall in the category of pep rally howling for the home team with little attention paid to true performance on the field.
Well,now I understand why the enrollment at the MS School of Math and Science is so low.
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