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December 24, 2020
From the heart of the Mississippi Delta, where rates of diabetes and major amputations are among the highest in the nation, to laboratories where researchers ply cutting-edge technologies aimed at minimizing and repairing tissue loss, an unexpected tone has entered the conversation around limb disease: hope.
“They call me a hope dealer,” said Foluso A. Fakorede, MD (Cardiovascular Solutions of Central Mississippi, Cleveland). Born in Nigeria and educated in New Jersey, he felt drawn to work in the Delta by the disproportionately high rates of unnecessary amputations among the community of largely poor people of color. As a Black cardiologist, he also felt an urgency to step up and use his knowledge and connections within the medical community to be perhaps the only health advocate some of his patients had ever encountered.
The Investigators: Available hospital beds plummet across Mid-South after post-Thanksgiving surge
The Investigators: Staffing shortages push hospitals to the brink By Jessica Jaglois | December 21, 2020 at 10:26 PM CST - Updated December 22 at 6:35 AM
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - The number of available hospital beds is plummeting across the Mid-South after, what health officials call, a post-Thanksgiving surge in COVID-19 cases.
Health officials in Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee are asking residents to avoid family gatherings outside of immediate households out of fear that another surge will overwhelm their healthcare systems.
For a hospital bed to be available, it needs to be open and there needs to be staff to help the person in it.