Mississippi is heading for a title that no state would want: It is on track to overtake Florida to become the No. 1 state for new coronavirus infections per capita, according to researchers at Harvard.
The state already faces high levels of diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and obesity.
As a result, the challenges specific to the coronavirus pandemic are “layered on top of our existing challenges,” says Dr. LouAnn Woodward, who is the top executive at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.
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