“In fact, if Mississippi were its own country, you would be second in the world only to Peru in terms of deaths per capita,” Tapper said. “So you’re not going to change anything?” Tapper asked. After several iterations of the question, Reeves again argued that deaths are a “lagging indicator.”There have been more than 473,000 reported COVID-19 cases in Mississippi and over 9,200 deaths. New daily cases spiked last month, with nearly 5,000 new cases a day reported in mid-August. That number has since fallen, with the seven-day average of new daily cases sitting at just over 1,800 cases as of Sunday.

Source: Huffington Post September 20, 2021 02:26 UTC