MISSISSIPPI NOW HAS THE HIGHEST RATE OF CORONAVIRUS HOSPITALIZATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES

[LiberalArkie]

Mississippi now has the highest rate of coronavirus hospitalizations of any state, as the pandemic continues to spread nationwide.

The news site Mississippi Today first reported the high rate of hospitalizations, citing data compiled and updated by The COVID Tracking Project. Currently, the rate of hospitalizations in the southern state stands at about 31 percent, with 332 people hospitalized out of 1,073 infections. Twenty-two people have already died in Mississippi due to COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus.

Comparatively, in the state of New York, which has the highest number of confirmed cases of any state nationwide, the hospitalization rate is currently significantly lower at about 22 percent. But New York also has more than 83,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, while over 18,000 have been hospitalized and nearly 2,000 have died.

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves on Wednesday ordered all state residents to "shelter in place" after resisting such a move for several weeks.

https://www.newsweek.com/mississippi-now-has-highest-rate-coronavirus-hospitalizations-united-states-1495753?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1585833911

[beachbumbob]

1. as usual late to the party and nothing going to stop the Bapists from Sunday services

again its karma I can live with

[gibraltar72]

2. They are China. But without any preparation.

[Mersky]

6. Perhaps more like Spain, then? (language warning)

But just 15 minutes south of us in Mississippi, there's a different governor, and his name is Tater Tate Reeves, and he is a huge fucking idiot. We are not saying that Tennessee Governor Bill Lee is not a huge fucking idiot, we are just saying that if Lee and Reeves had a huge fucking idiot contest to win a golden ticket back to first grade to LEARN A FUCKING THING, Tate Reeves would win that one.

Tater, who just got back from a trip to SPAIN with his family, SPAIN WE SAID SPAIN, ain't doin' no statewide lockdown order because here's why:

"Mississippi's never going to be China. Mississippi's never going to be North Korea," Reeves responded. He added that "when looking at the numbers China's putting out, claiming that they have no new cases over a period of time—I'm not entirely sure we can trust that data." [...] "We don't want to make any decisions that would ultimately do more harm than good," Reeves said.

https://www.wonkette.com/dumbass-mississippi-governor-gonna-cure-coronavirus-with-bible


Tater and family flew home on a private plane just ahead of tRump banning travel from Europe:
https://mississippitoday.org/2020/03/12/gov-tate-reeves-and-his-family-cut-spain-trip-short-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/

[gibraltar72]

7. Boss Hogg.

[Mersky]

8. For sure, the governor is a public health hazard.

[Botany]

3. Isn't this the state with the Republican Governor who didn't issue the stay at home order?

After all the C-19 virus is a hoax.

[NCjack]

4. The Stupid Party has total control. Combined with Trump's "leadership", expect the

state to have the worst performance in percent deaths.

[GopherGal]

5. Another instance of questionable denominator

Clued in by the word "rate".

If you pretend nothing's happening and don't test for cases, you don't get many confirmed cases to put in the denominator of the fraction, but when someone needs to go to the hospital, you can't pretend nothing's happening anymore, so the numerator gets bumped up.

Of course any state-to-state comparison is also complicated by how far along each state is in its outbreak given the time it takes for infections to turn into hospitalizations to turn into deaths...

[CaptYossarian]

9. Congrats.

I've said in the past: MS is 1st in racism and 50th in everything else.

I'll have to amend that.