Average active new cases in the county has risen dramatically over the past month, and there were more than 500 new positive cases in the past week for a total of 924 active cases.
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Jackson gets behind Underdawgs during their time playing in TBT
The Jackson Underdawgs have become a local sensation in recent years.
Coached by Dexter Williams and made almost completely of a virtual all-star team from high school basketball circa 2006-2010, the team has competed in The Basketball Tournament for the past few years.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down gatherings in 2020, Oman Arena was set to host a regional tournament last year.
They’ve become a team for much of the Jackson area to get behind for a few days each summer.
Anthony Kirk, owner of Turntable Coffee Counter in Downtown Jackson, has been a fan of them for years and wanted to help them out.
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It looks like we’re getting hit with another wave of COVID-19 cases.
Looking at the international totals for the virus since all this began in late 2019, a total of 4,154,327 people have died among a total case number of 193,533,900. Those numbers are from the Worldometer website that tracks these totals based on reports from official reporting agencies from countries all over the world, and those numbers are as of Friday morning.
A quick bit of work on my calculator tells me that’s a death rate of about 2.15 percent among cases.
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