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Erica Hensley, a native of Atlanta, has been working as an investigative reporter for Mississippi Today since May 2018. She is a Knight Foundation fellow for our newsroom’s collaboration with local TV station WLBT and curates The Inform[H]er, our monthly women and girls’ newsletter. She is the 2019 recipient of the Doris O'Donnell Innovations in Investigative Journalism Fellowship. Erica received a bachelor’s in print journalism and political science from the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and a master’s in health and medical journalism from the University of Georgia Grady College for Journalism and Mass Communication.
The mayor of Oxford, Miss. found more than 100 cases of COVID-19 that were not counted locally by the state health department. The discrepancy highlights a major problem state officials are facing when it comes to contact tracing.
Mississippi’s “sea of outbreaks,” fueled by community COVID-19 transmission, is creating dangerous working conditions in factories across the state.
After four days without full data updates, the first full single-day data report since June 17 showed the most-ever new cases reported in a single day.
Since Memorial Day, new cases have reversed previous flat or downward trends with new upward trends despite average tests trending down, and hospitalizations have followed
Senate passes measure requiring physicians to ask the woman if she is having an abortion because of race, gender or genetic abnormality
Teen Health Mississippi has carved out space in the public health and policy realm to empower teens to take advocacy and legislation of their bodies into their own hands.
Dr. LouAnn Woodward is the first woman to lead the University of Missisippi Medical Center, the state’s only academic health center and largest hospital, having served as dean and CEO of UMMC since 2015.
Families who have been in the dark about coronavirus spread in their loved one’s nursing homes now have limited insight into facility outbreaks.
This chart uses day-of-death data, reported by the health department after COVID-19 death investigations, to show the date that each death happened.
Once the virus is brought through nursing home doors, it’s nearly impossible to scrub out before it has taken its toll.
The state health department recorded 1,956 new COVID-19 cases this week, the most total cases for a week in Mississippi.
Dates of COVID-19 illness onset in Mississippi’s confirmed cases.
Hospitalization data for Mississippi’s confirmed COVID-19 cases.
