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Over 500 people tested for COVID in experimental initative

by Associated Press/ Report for America
| August 10, 2020 4:03 PM

JACKSON, MISS. (AP) — More than 500 people in one of the poorest counties in Mississippi were tested for the coronavirus by the state Department of Health over the past week as part of a new experimental initiative to slow the spread of the virus by community transmission.

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