COVID-19
New COVID-19 cases Saturday number 288 in Mississippi, four in Warren County

The Mississippi State Department of Health reports another big rise in new COVID-19 cases Saturday with 288, bringing the total of confirmed cases in Mississippi to 9,378.
MSDH is reporting another four COVID-19 cases in Warren County Saturday. The number of cases now stands at 98. The county’s death toll is unchanged and stands at two. Eleven cases in one long-term care facilities are under investigation in the county.
Statewide, MSDH reports 12 additional Mississippians died of COVID-19, bringing the number of deaths in the state to 421.
Deaths and new cases were reported as of 6 p.m. Friday, May 8. MSDH reports new statistics on the COVID-19 coronavirus each morning based on the previous day’s testing and death reports.
The number of estimated COVID-19 cases presumed recovered in Mississippi is 4,421 as of Sunday, May 3. This figure will be updated weekly.
The number of individual COVID-19 cases in long-term care facilities total 1,091, an increase of 61 since yesterday, and deaths among residents total 185, an increase of 10. About 12.3% of the state’s cases and 44% of the state’s deaths are people from long-term care facilities. The number of active outbreaks under investigation is 113, unchanged since yesterday. Mississippi is paying special attention to any outbreaks in these facilities. Even one case is a long-term care facility is considered an outbreak because of the ages and poor health of many residents. Long-term care facilities include nursing homes, intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities, personal care homes, assisted living facilities, long-term acute care facilities, and psychiatric or chemical dependency residential treatment centers.
Neighboring Hinds County, still the state’s virus epicenter, is reporting 663 cases as of Saturday, an increase of six since Friday, and 15 deaths an increase of four. Nine of the deaths in Hinds were residents in long-term care facilities. Fifty-one cases in long-term care facilities are under investigation in Hinds County.
In other neighboring counties, Yazoo County reports 162 cases and two deaths, unchanged since Friday. Yazoo is reporting one case under investigation in a long-term care facility. Claiborne County reports 41 cases, an increase of four, and Sharkey County reports five cases, unchanged since yesterday. Neither Claiborne or Sharkey counties have reported outbreaks in long-term care facilities, and neither has any reported deaths from the virus. Issaquena County remains the only county in the state without any reported cases.
In all, 28 Mississippi counties are now reporting more than 100 cases each, and 15 counties report 200 or more. Hinds, Lauderdale, Scott and Madison counties report more than 400 cases.
Deaths reported in most Mississippi counties are in the single digits, and 15 counties report no deaths from the virus. The following 16 counties report 10 or more deaths: Adams (11, unchanged since yesterday), Chickasaw (10), Forrest (21, up three), Hancock (10), Hinds (15, up four), Holmes (18, up two), Jackson (11, unchanged), Lauderdale (42, up two), Leflore (18, unchanged), Lincoln (13, up one), Madison (12, unchanged), Monroe (20, unchanged), Neshoba (13, up two), Pearl River (24, up three), Pike (10) and Tippah (11, up one) counties. Chickasaw, Hancock and Pike counties were added to that list Saturday.
Cases and deaths from the virus are heavily skewed toward African Americans, and MSDH is reporting racial breakdowns of each county’s statistics, available on its website. As of Saturday, 56.9% of cases (4,372) and 55.7% of COVID-19 deaths (200) in Mississippi were among African Americans.
COVID-19 cases are also skewed toward women, with 58.4% of cases among women.
Almost all the COVID-19 deaths in Mississippi occurred among people with underlying health conditions, including obesity, lung disease and diabetes. The health of African Americans is contributing to their higher rate of infection and death from COVID-19.
All age groups have been affected by the disease, including children under 18, with 334 cases, up 61 since Thursday. As of Saturday, MSDH reports 30 cases in infants less than 1 year old, up one since Thursday. No deaths among juveniles have been reported in Mississippi.
Deaths and hospitalizations from the virus occur most frequently among those 60 and older. As of Friday evening, 951 of Mississippi’s cumulative 1,513 hospitalizations, or 62.9%, were among people over 60, and 87.9% of the state’s deaths (370) have been people over 60.
Current hospitalizations among people with confirmed COVID-19 infections increased by one person Friday to 436 patients. Another 171 hospitalized people are suspected of being infected but have not been confirmed for the virus. The overall trend for patients in intensive care units and on ventilators seems to be holding fairly steady.
Mississippi’s rate of hospitalizations for those diagnosed with COVID-19 is below the national average. From a high of more than 30%, the rate stands at 18.3% as of Friday. The national average for hospitalizations has seen a steady rise and stands at 50.3 per 100,000 for the week ending May 2, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; however, the rate skyrockets to 162.2 per 100,000 for those 65 and older.
The number of tests performed in Mississippi as of May 8 is 90,472, with 75,133 tests, or about 83%, performed by private labs. About 10.4% of the tests had a positive result based on the total number of confirmed cases in the state. As more asymptomatic people are tested, the actual rate of infection will become clear. As of May 8, Mississippi has tested about 3% of the state’s population.
Anyone with symptoms of fever, severe cough or severe chest pains – especially those who are older or in poor health – should arrange for testing with their doctor or one of the many health care providers now performing testing, although not having a fever may not eliminate you from being tested. Health care providers can assess your health history and symptoms and perform testing for COVID-19 as needed. MSDH is also helping conduct free drive-up testing sites in many parts of the state. Always call ahead to the testing provider for instructions on safely being examined before you visit for your test.
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For more information, visit the MSDH website or call the hotline at 877-978-6453, available seven days a week from 7 a.m. until 11 p.m.
Mississippi COVID-19 total cases and deaths, and long-term care facility cases and deaths, to date:
County | Total Cases | Total Deaths | Total LTC Facility Cases | Total LTC Facility Deaths |
Adams | 158 | 11 | 39 | 5 |
Alcorn | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Amite | 34 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Attala | 191 | 4 | 60 | 4 |
Benton | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Bolivar | 119 | 8 | 16 | 2 |
Calhoun | 57 | 4 | 23 | 4 |
Carroll | 101 | 4 | 44 | 3 |
Chickasaw | 92 | 10 | 25 | 6 |
Choctaw | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Claiborne | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clarke | 79 | 7 | 12 | 3 |
Clay | 65 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Coahoma | 71 | 3 * | 0 | 0 |
Copiah | 157 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Covington | 89 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Desoto | 333 | 5 | 1 | 1 |
Forrest | 309 | 21 | 39 | 10 |
Franklin | 17 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
George | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Greene | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Grenada | 47 | 2 | 14 | 2 |
Hancock | 73 | 10 | 6 | 3 |
Harrison | 198 | 6 | 1 | 1 |
Hinds | 663 | 15 | 51 | 9 |
Holmes | 206 | 18 | 29 | 7 |
Humphreys | 30 | 4 | 7 | 2 |
Itawamba | 68 | 6 | 33 | 5 |
Jackson | 275 | 11 | 39 | 2 |
Jasper | 86 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Jefferson | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jefferson Davis | 53 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
Jones | 243 | 5 | 21 | 1 |
Kemper | 91 | 6 | 23 | 4 |
Lafayette | 98 | 3 | 36 | 0 |
Lamar | 145 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
Lauderdale | 471 | 42 | 115 | 26 |
Lawrence | 64 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Leake | 299 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Lee | 78 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
Leflore | 185 | 18 | 44 | 8 |
Lincoln | 184 | 13 * | 64 | 9 |
Lowndes | 79 | 3 | 7 | 2 |
Madison | 422 | 12 | 45 | 9 |
Marion | 83 | 7 | 14 | 2 |
Marshall | 55 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Monroe | 200 | 20 | 92 | 18 |
Montgomery | 67 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Neshoba | 307 | 13 | 31 | 5 |
Newton | 137 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Noxubee | 102 | 2 | 9 | 2 |
Oktibbeha | 86 | 4 | 22 | 3 |
Panola | 43 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Pearl River | 190 | 24 | 42 | 6 |
Perry | 34 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Pike | 168 | 10 | 14 | 5 |
Pontotoc | 24 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
Prentiss | 35 | 2 | 21 | 2 |
Quitman | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Rankin | 248 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
Scott | 454 | 6 | 9 | 1 |
Sharkey | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Simpson | 61 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Smith | 100 | 6 | 26 | 3 |
Stone | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Sunflower | 63 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Tallahatchie | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Tate | 50 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Tippah | 65 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
Tishomingo | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Tunica | 38 | 2 | 12 | 2 |
Union | 48 | 3 | 13 | 2 |
Walthall | 37 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Warren | 98 | 2 | 11 | 0 |
Washington | 82 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
Wayne | 27 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Webster | 21 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Wilkinson | 75 | 9 | 5 | 2 |
Winston | 61 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Yalobusha | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Yazoo | 162 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Total | 9,378 | 421 | 1,152 | 185 |
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