DeSoto County requests Mississippi to open field hospital, state approves COVID testing facility

[SheltieLover]

https://www.localmemphis.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/desoto-county-requests-mississippi-to-open-field-hospital-state-approves-covid-testing-facility/522-b871a4d9-5231-4bfb-ac74-cdc89e2bcba1

"The virus is going back and forth across state and county lines. We’ve got a lot of sick folks. ICUs are full, our emergency rooms are full."

Updated: 9:29 PM CDT August 17, 2021
DESOTO COUNTY, Miss — DeSoto County officials are requesting assistance from the state to open a field hospital. Tuesday, it got approval for a state-run COVID-19 testing location. This comes amid a rise in COVID cases and high demand at doctor offices.

“Our hospitals are in crisis mode they’ve asked for our help,” said Board of Supervisors President Mark Gardner.

“With the surge in cases sometimes it’s taking people days to get a test,” said Gardner.

More at link. DeSoto borders TN on the south end of Memphis. Although DeSoto is in MS, it is generally considered part of the Memphis metro area.

[nolabear]

1. My sister, in a Jackson suburb, says they're doing it in parking garages because

it’s summer in Mississippi. The thunderstorms alone will knock you down, much less the tornado and potential hurricane issues.

[Haggard Celine]

2. I get email from the Sun Herald every day.

It's the Gulfport/Biloxi paper, but it covers all of the Miss. coast. I read in one of their articles that we have 40 places in Miss. that have the monoclonal antibody therapy. I was pretty surprised! I wonder how many Mississippians know that.I

Have you heard how they're keeping cool in those field hospitals? You know it's got to be hot, even though they're out of the sun, and humid as hell too.

I was just wondering if they have some sort of a bubble tent they use, you know the ones that the CDC use when they make a portable lab. They look sort of like those blow-up houses that they get for the kids to jump around in. If they do, maybe they can pipe air conditioning into them.

[nolabear]

3. Maybe I've said this before but that's where I grew up. Can you imagine that heat/humidity?

I grew up in Biloxi and Pascagoula and lived in New Orleans for several years. I cannot IMAGINE being in a makeshift hospital there. The palmetto bugs alone would kill me.

I'm really glad about the monoclonal antibodies though. I'll let my sisters, one in Jackson-ish and one in Ocean Springs, know. I'm worried as hell about their grandchildren, in school of course and not old enough to get vaccinated. One whole extended family group vacationed in FL a month or so ago and one of them ended up in ICU. He's home but still on oxygen supplements. He claims to have been vaccinated but he had a monster case. They all had it, but the others had relatively minor symptoms.

I should get the Sun-Herald. I look in on it and the Clarion Ledger now and then.