MS COVID Cases Surge - 11/16/20

The Mississippi Department of Health released the latest COVID case numbers

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25 to 39-year-olds continue to lead the covid-19 case count in mississippi.

Today, that number topped 30 thousand.

The mississippi state department of health is reporting 589 new covid-19 cases and two deaths.

Those deaths occurred in pontotoc and winston counties.

778 people are in hospitals across the state with confirmed or suspected coronavirus symptoms. 185 patients are in i.c.u.

Right now, only 10 point seven percent of infected people need to be hospitalized.

More than 116 thousand people are presumed recovered from covid-19 in mississippi.

This means there are over 14 thousand presumed active cases in the state.

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