374 - COVID-19 in Mississippi
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Mississippi is leading the nation in the rate of COVID deaths. Dr. Thomas Dobbs, the state's health commissioner, talks with Dr. Josh Sharfstein about the state's pandemic crisis, including its impact on pregnant women, the role of misinformation, and the impact on the health care system.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 4 of Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former Commissioner of Health in Baltimore City. |
| 0:20.0 | Our goal is to bring |
| 0:21.7 | scientific evidence and experience to current topics in public health through engaging interviews |
| 0:27.1 | with scientists, community leaders, policy experts, public health officials, clinicians, and more. |
| 0:32.8 | If you have ideas or questions for us to cover, please email us at public health question at jhhhu.edu. |
| 0:40.4 | That's public health question at jhhu.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.5 | Today, I speak with the Health Commissioner of the state of Mississippi, Dr. Thomas Dobbs. |
| 0:52.1 | Dr. Dobbs is an infectious disease physician who has steered his state through one of the most |
| 0:57.2 | difficult COVID summaries in the country. |
| 1:00.4 | Let's listen. |
| 1:02.1 | Dr. Dobbs, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast. |
| 1:05.4 | What is the COVID situation right now in the state of Mississippi? |
| 1:09.6 | You know, the COVID situation is still pretty bad. |
| 1:12.7 | We're recording over 2,500 cases a day, but as bad as that is, it's not as bad as it has |
| 1:19.5 | been. |
| 1:19.9 | We had really just a phenomenally bad month of August that Delta Surge really swept through |
| 1:25.1 | us in an aggressive way. |
| 1:27.1 | And really, if you look at the impact on |
| 1:29.1 | health care system and the number of lives lost, it's really been traumatic. How many people died in |
| 1:34.2 | August? We lost over 1,000 people in the month of August alone. And a lot of those folks were, you know, |
| 1:41.7 | younger age groups. Just this last week, and we looked at the number of |
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