The Mississippi State Department of Health issued the following statement.
Today, the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) announces that State Health Officer Thomas Dobbs, MD, MPH, will resign from his position at the end of July 2022.
Dobbs began his career at MSDH in 2008, and has held numerous roles including District Health Officer, State Epidemiologist, and Deputy State Health Officer. His passion has always been infectious disease treatment, and he has served in various roles related to that field, such as medical director for the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, clinical consultant for the Southeastern National TB Center, and infectious disease consultant for several hospitals throughout Mississippi.
“I feel like the time is right for me to return to the clinical side of medicine, particularly the communicable disease treatment of patients,” said Dobbs. “I have thoroughly enjoyed my time at MSDH, particularly working with this dedicated health staff and advancing the field of health equity in Mississippi.”
Dobbs said he also would like to step back into the academic world. He has held numerous faculty positions at colleges and universities throughout the Southeast, including at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, and he would love to teach and train healthcare professionals about public health and infectious disease.
State Board of Health Chairman Thad Waites, MD, MACC, says the Board has always fully supported Dr. Dobbs in his role as Mississippi’s State Health Officer but understands his desire to return to the clinical side of medicine. “I speak for all of us when I say that we have truly appreciated his professionalism, sterling personality, and stellar leadership throughout his tenure, but especially during COVID. He has been a wonderful asset to Mississippi,” said Waites.
Daniel P. Edney, MD, FACP, has been named Deputy State Health Officer. Edney is a long-time resident of Vicksburg, and a graduate of the University of Mississippi Medical School where he graduated summa cum laude and with other honors. Edney is also a member of the American Medical Association and the Mississippi State Medical Association where he serves as Past President. He has served as Chief Medical Officer at MSDH for the past year and worked closely with Dobbs during COVID providing outreach and guidance to other physicians.
The Board will take up the issue of interim State Health Officer in one of its upcoming meetings.
78 comments:
He is the very definition of "public servant" and a fine man. Thank you for all you've done in the best interest of Mississippi, Dr. Dobbs.
Notice that Dobbs didn't thank Gov. Reeves for his leadership during the pandemic.
Wow, this accouncement will go viral.
Good riddance you POS!
It is unfortunate that none of the government “officials” who participated in the Plandemic mass-formation psychosis operation, will ever be tried and punished for their crimes against humanity!
He was never the right fit for this job. Too hysterical. I can't imagine any of our previous health officers acting the way he did in every press conference.
Dobbs: "Get me the f@ck outta here before medical marijuana is up and running."
Fauci is nowhere to be seen and Dobbs is stepping down…
It is a good day.
Now, go find a leading public health official that isn't a lemming for the national health institutions.
He promised that he would leave if the "medical" cannabis law passed, and he kept his word. He worked selflessly during the pandemic.
Fair winds, following seas.
His emotional and overly dramatic demeanor was a very poor fit for someone expected to lead and advise.
He never inspired confidence in anyone and unlike most of us, he was paid handsomely for his "stressful" tenure.
Some of us struggled under the unfounded oppression without a medical professional's income.
An absolute loss for the State of Mississippi. Dr. Dobbs has been the right man at the right time during the past couple of years, particularly having to deal with the COVID issues daily, sometimes hourly - while at the same time having to manage all the regular functions of the MDOH. Added on top of those, as if not enough, the preparation for implementation of I65 maryjo regulations, followed by the legislature's passage of a more reasonable medical weed program but not allowing adequate time or resources to implement it.
For all the haters, as far as I'm concerned you can cram it. Dobbs has been a great public servant in the best meaning of the word. I wish him well in his future activities - I hope they will be performed here in Mississippi.
Fauci in hiding due to his finances and now this. Guess the Covid gravy train is off the rails . Rats jumping ship after the checks are cashed. My gawd you folks sure do like the shell game.
12:50 I see what you did there. Ha!
Whenever hear the fawning over authoritarian bureaucrats like 1:42 PM, I assume they spent the entire acamdemic just as hysterical like that chicken little Dobbs was.
The covid scamdemic is over and I remained:
Unmasked
Unvaxxed
Uncompromised
Unapologetic
All smiles! 😀😆😂
"For all the haters, as far as I'm concerned you can cram it. Dobbs has been a great public servant in the best meaning of the word. I wish him well in his future activities - I hope they will be performed here in Mississippi."
No, you can cram it. There was nothing admirable about the man. Not one move he advised during Covid saved lives. In fact, an argument can be made that his eagerness to spew out nothing but the propaganda from the federal health authorities harmed people and cost some their lives.
“I feel like the time is right for me to return to the clinical side of medicine, particularly the communicable disease treatment of patients,” said the guy that got paid to show up on my TV telling me to stay 6 feet apart from others for 2 years.
Be interesting to see if he stays in Mississippi. I'm betting he leaves.
You get what you pay for. Mississippi doesn’t (in general) pay much for civil servants and it doesn’t get much for its dollar. Compared to the current head of the CDC, he is stellar. But let’s admit what happened under his watch: The highest per capital death rate from COVID. Not sure I would put this stint on my CV if I were Dr. Dobbs.
I’d be running from the idiots in this state if I had the credentials he has. Good luck to him wherever he ends up. He had an impossible job getting the fat morons around here to give a damn about their health. Can’t imagine how frustrating that job must’ve been.
Everyone make sure your tinfoil hat is on good and tight. No telling what that villain will be up to next.
12:59 take off your tinfoil hat and get some help!
What a fine man and public servant. Thank you, Dr. Dobbs for your expertise and service and for your tolerance of idiots like 12:59.
Quack doctors are as old as the medical “arts” (why not science?)
Could his timing be any better ? Lol, investigate this tools finances and let us ALL see the truth. Wonder if he will invest in oil from his riches.
He deserves prison. He pushed this poison (and if any of you drones don’t believe it’s poison, pull the Pfizer docs just released) and now he intends to quietly slink away? Fuck him. Start the investigation now into how much he took to push this shit.
"You get what you pay for":
The highest per capital death rate from COVID
Covid vaccination rate: 51%.
Yes, you do get what you pay for. We paid for the lowest (to third lowest) vax rate with the highest number of deaths.
3 or 4 times our WWII total losses in half the time. What a bargain! Thanks, LiberaLtarians!!!
FreeDumb isn't free! It's just dumb.
All you whiners, bitchers and haters could NEVER do what Dr. Dobbs has done.
Goodness, gracious!
Why can't you be thankful just a wee little bit and wish the man well, thank him for his service to MS?
Dr. Dobbs - I appreciate you and all you've done for and with Mississippi.
Good for him. That man needs a vacation worse than anyone else.
I suspect that, since many of the protocols / guidelines the feds and he espoused over the last 2 years are now being refuted, ol doc probably sees what's coming. I would think a low-key existence from here on out might serve him well (except, if he leaves, I'm not sure he will still have the legal protections of his "official position.")
Say what you want to say, but truth is truth and facts are facts….this link provides much needed truth related to what is really behind this….
https://mpvrpac.com/news/
2:18 : That is a flat out lie. He spent 2 years NEVER mentioning fat folks and instead pushed the VAX on everybody ! Including healthy children. Take your bullshit somewhere else.
@3:24 PM
Thank you. I had no idea that this PAC existed!
All those FOI requests proving that Dobbs was just towing the line of the Great Reset Agenda!
I bet Klaus Schwab will reward him whenever the rest of us are eating the bugs 🕷 🐜 🐛 for protein
I heard that Dr. Dobbs is co-writing Fauci's screenplay - "How Dr. Fauci Conquered the Covid Pandemic."
3:44 : And since Fauci knew how fat we were, you can guarantee Dobbs was one of his boys in the scam. I wouldn't be surprised if Mississippi was the actual ground zero considering how many folks got sick in late 2019.
3:24 Just because some nut-case posts something on the internet does not make it a fact.
My only thought is I wish I was as wise and all knowing as several of those commenting on Dr Dobbs decision.
Good man, hate to see him go.
Only a fool, in the PERS system, resigns at the end of July instead of the end of June.
I do believe it was a scamdemic, but I don’t believe in personally attacking Dobbs. He had a role to play and he toyed the line very well. Anybody hearing who the interim will be? . And all these folks thinking they’re gonna get pot licenses now that Dobbs is gone and one of taters Minions is probably up next to bat…. Good luck.
Dr. Dobbs, Thank you for hanging in there and doing your best, in spite of all the idiocy that was thrown your way.
@4:28
All you have to do is stop believing the traitorous, globalist, MSM and listen to doctors with zero financial gain agenda, warning us that the experimental DNA modification vax wasn’t worth the risk for a fucking cold!
BTW, it was quietly confirmed that the Pfizer jab enters the liver and modifies DNA…. oopsie!
He’s a scumbag and I hope he rots in hell for the lies and damage he’s done to people’s lives. He started the lies about ivermectin. How many people died as a result? He lied about the “pandemic of the unvaccinated “. He’s probably only resigning to get his payday from big pharma.
"Barring the natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."
@5:24 - please show me a doctor who is against the Covid vaccines and is not profiting off their position.
I know one, but don't want to get him persecuted and cancelled by the medical fascists.
Takin' that loot and gettin' outta Dodge before all you quackcinated fools start dyin' like flies.
The only Doctor we recognize is Dre.
He was not effective. Highest death rate in the nation. Lowest vaccination rate.
Not good with communication.
Putin killed the pandemic. Time to cash in with the drug companies now.
Dobbs was (is) another useful idiot...and he probably knows it now, so it's time to skeedaddle before the backlash. MedMaryjane was just his lifeboat excuse. There may be a reckoning, which he also knows.
I don't know Dr. Dobbs and didn't watch him on TV. But based on the caliber of the critical comments, it looks like he was doing a good job and is a rational actor. Also, allow me to thank all of the commenters who include words like crimes against humanity, treason, sheeple, plandemic, and scamdemic. Also, the one person smart enough to use "lemmings". You folks save me time because I can move to the next comment as soon as I see any of those. Keep up the good work!
@8:03=NPC/NEHA/Replicant
Not
Even
Human
Anymore
It’s like living in a dystopian scifi novel at this point
8:03 : Your point Mr. Lemming ?
People like 8:03 would rather exist in a media delusion than ever accept that they were duped into taking a dangerous and unnecessary jab that will definitely shorten their life by a decade or more.
All for the Net Zero Carbon 2030 agenda, requiring a glibal human population no more than 1 billion and absolutely zero human carbon emissions.
Maybe you are the lucky ones. You won’t survive to eat the 🐜 🐛 🕷
Thanks to Dr. Dobbs' leadership, people in Mississippi were able to get vaccines much earlier than in other parts of the country. He did a fantastic job!
Could this have anything to do with his resignation:
https://mpvrpac.com/news/?fbclid=IwAR2bdHeBAVjpeAFh-GhzUmp8K15uxmTnjWj9Wh3i_YCGRlUSlplYrQMCNtc
They shut the effing reservoir down. That's really all you have to know.
8:52 :There is data suggesting that medical pros like this Dobbs already know that the vax is causing health issues for those who were once healthy. THIS is the reason he's greasing away. They were never intended to be used on healthy people. How can you be so blind to this clear fact ?
Y’all need to stop hating on 8:03. He’s just working to build up his social credit score! Y’all need to be more concerned about losing you “social license” to even exist. Especially if you are a heterosexual, Christian, white male.
@9:03 said…
They shut the effing reservoir down. That's really all you have to know.
This X1000.
I'm suffering from health issues (I'm convinced are) related to the tandem Moderna shots. I have no idea whether Dobbs is to blame for that, but doubt it. I suppose the blame lies with ME.
In a post (above) you were given a link with an invitation to read it. I did read it. Quite revealing. Put me in the column of those who see this link as a major reason Dobbs is packing his grip and arranging a ride to the train station.
https://mpvrpac.com/news/?fbclid=IwAR2bdHeBAVjpeAFh-GhzUmp8K15uxmTnjWj9Wh3i_YCGRlUSlplYrQMCNtc
Dobbs took an oath to “do no harm” and the Public Records posted at mpvrpac.com show that Dobbs took the path of politics and broke his oath. The Japanese independently proved that Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine are effective therapeutics for Covid-19. It is absolutely criminal to deny the public a cheap and effective therapy in order to push an experimental drug for financial gain.
He is a man of integrity but it's unfortunate he was in such lock-step with the leftist CDC - it's probably hard to see through them, after years of medical training. I appreciate he did his best, but I think time will show this pandemic was not handled correctly. It's the minority in the medical community that could see what was going on.
5:06 : Lol, I think he's good. If you know what I mean....
Looks like he's leaving to prep for the coming storm. Wonder if big pharma will foot the bill for the lawyers.
His going away gift should be gold-plating the boot he loved to hold to the neck of small businesses starting in April 2020.
@9:03 said…
They shut the effing reservoir down. That's really all you have to know.
Not only that, but thousands of small businesses, restaurants, medical offices, hospitals, churches, outdoor events, many of which never recovered from the shutdown. Yall forget "essential and nonessential businesses"? SO much silliness ,so much money and effort wasted . So many people right now dying from mental effects of all this .
I may have missed it, but did he EVER stand up and say that lifestyle changes such as drastic weight loss, better diabetic control, quitting smoking/vaping, regular exercise, better diet, hypertension control, or getting outdoors, will greatly help one's chances of a good outcome of viral infection? Did he ever say that kids under 25 have a very tiny chance of severe illness?
All I recall was an oppressive fear of being around others, people wearing masks all by themselves in their homes, in their cars, walking 100 yards away from any other human due to fear of contagions. Dobbs et al could have easily allayed a lot of these fears and given people some hope. Instead, he pushed the same agenda as all the others. People are still scared to death to go places.
Of course he pushed healthy people to get vaccinated - it helps improve the efficacy data of the vaccine on paper. They knew almost right away it didn't prevent transmission. Meanwhile, friends' parents who were triple vaxxed are still dying from Covid.
What the hell do you mean by 'shut the reservoir down'? I've never missed a day of fishing unless Sigman got a hard-on for the public and acted an ass.
Awwwwww, but but what about the daily fear campaign he and Tater so loved to do ? Oh wait, an earlier poster pointed out that Putin eradicated Covid a week ago. Sorry.
These comments are solid evidence that there is a tremendous need for public health to now pivot to addressing mental health issues. Lord help us all.
@ 6:20 - The psyche triage nurse will no doubt move you right up to the first chair in the hallway. Your repetitive posts regarding 'these comments', on so many threads, have finally surpassed those of the 'I'd hit it' guy from awhile back.
@7:56 that was my first “these comments” comment, and I don’t know what a psyche triage nurse is. But I’m guessing you meant psych triage nurse. I may need him or her STAT if this psychosis is infectious. I hope the good Dr. Dobbs gets the rest he needs and deserves. A million Americans are dead. The antivaxers are claiming mass casualties from the vaccine, yet here in this tight knit state, no one knows anyone that died from the vaccine. Yet we all know way too many that died from COVID. Yes, the hysteria is obvious, and it is one sided. The rational fear is on the side of the folks that saw over twelve thousand Mississippians die. I don’t know how to frame it any differently. If you don’t believe me, just drive straight to your the nearest pulmonologist or infectious disease doctor. Go to any doctor that you would trust with yours or your family’s life. Because those are the people that you’re going to need to be ready to trust for the rest of your lives, not some YouTube station. When things go bad and you dial 911, or you get that diagnosis that punches you in the gut, you’re going to need your local healthcare system. And they’ve been aligned with Dobbs for the last two years. If you don’t trust healthcare and science anymore, what are your options? Because they’re still using the same best practices now that they’ve always used. It’s you all that have to come back to them.
10:44 : I know of no one who died of either !! Dr, Dobbs TOOK MONEY to push this scam and no amount of words by you will change it. And since Tater was in it with him...no proof will ever make it court.
I hate to see someone as honest as Dr. Dobbs get such adverse commentary as he has got on here. It is a sad because I believe that he did his honest best to steer us thru such a difficult and unprecedented Pandemic. It is not too unexpected considering the people who comment on things on this blog! I surely wish him well in his future undertakings.
10:44 - said, "just drive straight to your the nearest pulmonologist..."
7:56 here. I don't know what is meant by 'your the nearest'. But I'm guessing you meant 'the nearest'.
Your diatribe is duly noted. By the way, I've seen you sitting on the grocery-store floor, comic aisle, deeply reading The Joker's latest conspiracy to over-take Gotham. Someone of your age should really be more discreet when doing research.
10:44 - I trusted my cardiologist (who was recovering from Covid) and our family doctor, both of whom recommended the shots. So I got two Moderna shots. Two months later I had multiple body function issues, some of which are still with me almost a year later. Then...Bam, I was diagnosed with Covid/Pneumonia, took multiple medications including the four gut-shots and Ivermectin. Managed to get through most of it with the help of three neurosurgeons, one Rheumatoid Specialist, four general practice MDs, three nurse practitioners and two physical therapists.
I have not died (yet) from either the shots or the disease but I would not take the shots if I could back-track and make the decision again.
You are right..We have to trust somebody, sometime. I trusted 'the science', my cardiologist and our family doctor.
BREAKING: Dobbs, finally realizing the money ain't in state employment...has decided to grease down his hair and become a signer - that's where the money is. Like John Cash, Dobbs always wanted to be the man in black.
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