A hospital crisis in Mississippi, the least-vaccinated state
Kelly Sites is a nurse and team leader with the Samaritan's Purse International Relief medical team in Jackson, Miss. where the Christian organization has set up a field hospital in a parking garage. Sites has responded to 20 missions in Haiti, the Philippines, Liberia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and other places, but “to respond to the United States is quite surreal for us,” she said. (Rogelio V. Solis/AP)
Mississippi’s low vaccinated rate, with about 38% of the state’s 3 million people fully inoculated against COVID-19, is driving a surge in cases and hospitalizations that is overwhelming medical workers.
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