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Mitch Williams, 85, one of the first patients to be seen at the Delta Health Center in Mound Bayou, Miss. poses inside of the center’s museum, March 3, 2021.
In the 1960s, health care for Black residents in rural Mississippi was practically non-existent. While some hospitals served Black patients, they struggled to stay afloat; most options were segregated. During the height of the civil rights movement, young Black doctors decided to launch a movement of their own.
“Mississippi was third-world and was so bad and so separated. The community health center movement was the conduit for physicians all over this country who believed that all people have a right to health care,” said Dr. Robert Smith.
Fewer Louisianans seek COVID tests; experts say testing helps track virus & variants
Louisiana sees less people getting tested for COVID-19 By Sabrina Wilson | March 3, 2021 at 6:18 PM CST - Updated March 3 at 6:18 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Louisiana is seeing fewer people getting tested for COVID-19 even as the pandemic continues, and public health experts say that could affect the monitoring of how and where the original virus and its mutations are spreading.
Kim Hood, JD, MPH, is the Louisiana Department of Health’s Assistant Secretary for the Office of Public Health.
“Testing is really down not just in the state of Louisiana but down nationally and certainly we have seen that in many areas of the state,” said Hood. “But we haven’t seen any information that would indicate that it’s necessarily because of increased availability of the vaccine. I think we really are sort of focusing in on recent holidays, the ice storm, that kind of un-Louisiana-like winter weath