have feared the most is just total failure of the hospital system. and, you know, if we track back a week or so, when we look at the case positivity rate, the number of new positives that we re seeing, the rate of the testing positives, and the rate of hospitalizations based on what we re seeing, if we continue that trajectory, within the next five, seven, to ten days, i think we re going to see failure of the hospital system in mississippi. hospitals are full from memphis to gulfport, everything is full. if there were, schools coming back, if there were a bus wreck of kids, we would not be able to take care of these kids. when you see federal teams come in, it really needs to open people s eyes to the fact that it is a serious situation. we re hopeful that, you know, we can get people to wear masks and get vaccinated and stay away from each other, and that this rapid rate of rise that we re seeing will peak or plateau pretty quickly here so we don t get into a situation wher
have feared the most s total failure, total failure of the hospital system. if we track back a week or so and we look at the case positivity rate, the number of new positives that we re seeing, the rate of the testing positive and the rate of hospitalizations based on what we are seeing, if we continue that trajectory within the next five, to 7 to 10 days, we re gonna see failure of the hospital system in mississippi. hospitals are full from memphis to meridian, everything is full. if there were schools opening back, a bus of kids, we would not be able to take care of all those kids at this hospital. we re in a pretty serious situation. we see federal teams come in, it needs to open peoples eyes to the fact that this is a serious situation. so we re hopeful that we can get people to wear masks and get vaccinated, and stay way from each other. and that this rapid rate of rise that we are seeing will peak or plateau pretty quickly here, so that we don t get into a situation whe
total failure of the hospital system. and, you know, if we track back a week or so, when we look at the case positivity rate, the number of new positives that we re seeing, the rate of the testing positives, and the rate of hospitalizations based on what we re seeing, if we continue that trajectory, within the next five, seven, to ten days, i think we re going to see failure of the hospital system in mississippi. hospitals are full from memphis to gulfport, everything is full. if there were, schools coming back, if there were a bus wreck of kids, we would not be able to take care of these kids. we re in a serious situation. when you see federal teams come in, it really needs to open people s eyes to the fact that it is a serious situation. we re hopeful that, you know, we can get people to wear masks and get vaccinated and stay away from each other, and that this rapid rate of rise that we re seeing will peak or plateau pretty quickly here so we don t get into a situation whe
Hodding Carter III, a Mississippi newspaperman and award-winning television journalist who kept Americans informed about the Iran hostage crisis as State Department spokesman, has died at age 88. His daughter Catherine Carter Sullivan confirmed he died Thursday in North Carolina. Carter was no relation to President Jimmy Carter, but both rose through Southern Democratic politics. Hodding Carter III was a civil rights activist as well as a journalist at his family’s Delta Democrat-Times in Greenville, Mississippi. He later anchored television programs and steered the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. He also ran the John S. Knight and James L. Knight Foundation.