TUPELO ⢠It was mid-January 2020, and the top epidemiologist for the state of Mississippiâs public health agency was alarmed by skyrocketing pneumonia cases in the Wuhan province of China linked to a novel coronavirus.
Over nearly three decades working for the Mississippi State Department of Health, Dr. Paul Byers had monitored new disease outbreaks before, including H1N1, Ebola and Zika
But this time seemed different.
âI think this is the big one,â Byers said, showing the data to the MSDH agency chief, Dr. Thomas Dobbs.
Byers would soon be proven right.
Widely known at the time simply as âthe coronavirus,â the disease soon spread beyond China.
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