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Mississippi Today Editor-At-Large Marshall Ramsey sits down with Dr. LouAnn Woodward, Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and Dean of the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and discusses the challenges Mississippi’s largest healthcare provider and teaching hospital faces because of COVID-19.

Woodward discusses how COVID-19 has aggravated Mississippi’s existing health challenges, how UMMC has adapted to the “new normal,” ways that she combats personal stress and where Mississippi is headed in the near term with COVID and the flu seasons hitting at the same time.

Read our full coverage of coronavirus in Mississippi and our daily case updates and data.

For more of Marshall’s Mississippi Zoom Tour, click here.

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Marshall’s Mississippi Zoom Tour: An Interview with Dr. LouAnn Woodward

by Marshall Ramsey, Mississippi Today
November 11, 2020

<h1>Marshall’s Mississippi Zoom Tour: An Interview with Dr. LouAnn Woodward</h1> <p class="byline">by Marshall Ramsey, Mississippi Today <br />November 11, 2020</p> <p>Mississippi Today Editor-At-Large Marshall Ramsey sits down with Dr. LouAnn Woodward, Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and Dean of the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and discusses the challenges Mississippi's largest healthcare provider and teaching hospital faces because of COVID-19. </p> <figure class="wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio"> <div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://youtu.be/w6mG6AU5XRU </div> </figure> <p>Woodward discusses how COVID-19 has aggravated Mississippi's existing health challenges, how UMMC has adapted to the "new normal," ways that she combats personal stress and where Mississippi is headed in the near term with COVID and the flu seasons hitting at the same time.</p> <p>Read our <a href="https://mississippitoday.org/category/coronavirus-in-mississippi/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">full coverage</a> of coronavirus in Mississippi and our daily <a href="https://mississippitoday.org/2020/04/27/covid-19-data/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">case updates and data</a>.</p> <p>For more of Marshall's Mississippi Zoom Tour, <a href="https://mississippitoday.org/2020/07/28/marshalls-mississippi-zoom-tour/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">click here</a>.</p> <p>This &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://mississippitoday.org/2020/11/11/marshalls-mississippi-zoom-tour-an-interview-with-dr-louann-woodward/&quot;&gt;article&lt;/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;https://mississippitoday.org&quot;&gt;Mississippi Today&lt;/a&gt; and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/mississippitoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/MT_icon-logo-favicon-1.png?fit=134%2C150&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; style=&quot;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&quot;&gt;&lt;img id=&quot;republication-tracker-tool-source&quot; src=&quot;https://mississippitoday.org/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=860710&amp;amp;ga4=G-VSX4B701MS&quot; style=&quot;width:1px;height:1px;&quot;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &quot;https://mississippitoday.org/2020/11/11/marshalls-mississippi-zoom-tour-an-interview-with-dr-louann-woodward/&quot;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;/script&gt; &lt;script id=&quot;parsely-cfg&quot; src=&quot;//cdn.parsely.com/keys/mississippitoday.org/p.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</p> Copy to Clipboard

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