Mississippi hospital puts beds in parking garage to cope with COVID-19 surge

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Aug 13 (Reuters) - The crush of new COVID-19 infections in Mississippi has become so dire that the state has turned to efforts reminiscent of the earliest days of the U.S. pandemic, when a field hospital was set up in New York's Central Park and a medical ship was moored in the Hudson River.

With an overload of coronavirus patients and a shortage of healthcare workers in the state, the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) opened up a 20-bed field hospital in its parking garage on Friday morning. It plans to open a mobile hospital tent early next week, staffed by a medical team sent by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

The UMMC hospital opened a similar triage center in its parking garage in the spring of 2020.

Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves said that the federal government had denied his state's request for the same U.S. Navy hospital ship - the USNS Comfort - that docked in Manhattan in March 2020 to relieve hospitals of their COVID-19 patient burden. At the time, New York was the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in the United States.

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Governor Dickhead Reeves today:

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Ashton Pittman
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With MS State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs standing behind him wearing a mask, Gov. Tate Reeves criticized reporter for wearing a mask despite being vaccinated.

"If you really want to virtue signal, why are you in this room? Why don't you go to your house & lock yourself up?"
Tate Reeves stands at the podium with Dr. Dobbs behind him
2:22 PM · Aug 13, 2021