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Official: Mississippi hospitals likely to be overwhelmed

by Associated Press/Report for America
| July 21, 2020 12:03 AM

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Within two weeks, Mississippi hospitals will need to start housing patients two-to-a room and placing beds in open wards and other areas where patients don't normally stay to keep up with the surge in new coronavirus cases, the state health officer said Monday.

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