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Describing a climate of vaccine shaming and bullying, two Mississippi nurses have reported once amicable work environments degenerate into a division between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.One nurse in Jackson, Mississippi—who requested to remain anonymous—told The Epoch Times that when faced with the vaccine mandate at her hospital, she quit and took another job paying $16 an hour more at another health care system that hadn’t implemented the mandate.However, with President Joe Biden’s announcement on Thursday to mandate the COVID-19 vaccine for health care systems that participate in Medicaid and Medicare programs, the nurse said, even at her new job,...

Numerous governors have issued statements following Democrat President Joe Biden’s speech on Thursday signaling that they will strongly oppose his attempts to mandate vaccines. Immediate reaction from governors:

AP reported 70% of poison calls in Mississippi were for ivermectin. The true number is reportedly 1.4%. Leah Willingham of the Associated Press (AP) joins Rolling Stone in having to correct an embarrassing error, as propagandists try to controversialize the medicine ivermectin to treat Covid-19. Both news agencies have passed along widely false information as they state or imply that leagues of uninformed people across the country are poisoning themselves with ivermectin. The AP report on August 23 falsely stated that 70% of recent calls to the Mississippi Poison Control Center were from people who had ingested ivermectin to try...

MESSAGE ID: RECIPIENTS: SUBJECT: Dear Colleagues, This is an official MS Health Alert Network (HAN) Alert MSHAN-20210820-00532-ALT (Health Alert) All Physicians, Hospitals, ERs, ICPs, NPs, and Healthcare Providers – Statewide Friday, August 20, 2021 Increased Poison Control Calls due to Ivermectin Ingestion and Potential Toxicity • The Mississippi Poison Control Center has received an increasing number of calls from individuals with potential ivermectin exposure taken to treat or prevent COVID-19 infection. • At least 70% of the recent calls have been related to ingestion of livestock or animal formulations of ivermectin purchased at livestock supply centers. • 85% of the...

The Hurricane Ida death toll rose to five late on Monday after a 71-year-old man was thought to have been killed by an alligator in Louisiana, while a Mississippi highway collapse killed two people and injured ten others. The alligator attack took place in the man's shed in the town of Slidell in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, according to WWL-TV, citing the man's wife who called the police. The victim's body has not been found. Meanwhile, pictures from the scene of the highway collapse showed two badly damaged vehicles in a large hole which the road had fallen into, with...

Hurricane Ida, after making two landfalls over western Cuba later during the day on Friday, was barreling into the southeastern Gulf of Mexico. AccuWeather forecasters warned that Ida, headed over exceptionally warm waters, was likely to rapidly intensify and approach the U.S. coast as Category 4 hurricane. Meteorologists warned residents along the central Gulf Coast that time is running out to prepare for the storm or evacuate the storm's projected path. -snip-The latest forecast from AccuWeather meteorologists indicates that the storm will continue to increase in strength and take a path into the central Gulf of Mexico. AccuWeather forecasters expect...

Ida became a tropical storm over the West-Central Caribbean Sea. Initial forecast model guidance predicts landfall as a hurricane in the North-Central Gulf of Mexico. Mash the graphics below to enlarge. All links and images are self-updating. GOES Satellite Floater NHC Public Advisories NHC Forecast Discussions Buoy Info Tropical Tidbits by Levi Cowan NWS Radar Local News Sources: NOLA.com New Orleans Local WWLTV.com New Orleans Local KPLC.com Lake Charles Local WLOX.com Biloxi MS Local FOX4 Beaumont Beaumont/Port Arthur Local KHOU.com Houston Local

As COVID-19 cases rise in Mississippi, the state’s Department of Health on Friday sent out an alert warning those who test positive for COVID-19 to isolate for 10 days or face up to 5 years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000.Fox News reported that the order issued Friday by State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs said that those “infected with COVID-19 must remain in the home or other appropriate residential location for 10 days from onset of illness.”Dobbs added that people isolating due to a positive COVID-19 test don’t need a negative test to end their quarantine,...

Mississippi health officials are warning people not to take animal drugs to protect them from getting COVID-19. "The Mississippi Poison Control Center has received increased calls due to livestock or animal formulations of ivermectin taken to prevent or treat COVID-19 infection. Animal drugs are highly concentrated for large animals and can be highly toxic in humans. Do NOT take drugs made for animals in any form," the Mississippi State Department of Health said on social media Friday. State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs was asked during a Wednesday briefing about reports of people becoming ill after ingesting the drugs, which...

Biden's proposed American Families Plan promises billions to families with children but imposes large increases in farm transfer taxes =============================================================================== President Joe Biden's proposed American Families Plan promises billions to families with children. But paying for it could have a devastating impact on family farms. That's because the plan includes large increases in farm transfer taxes. Craig Hill, the president of Iowa Farm Bureau said, as it stands, the proposal could become law with serious impact on farm families. Hill said the AFP is a major threat to passing farms to the next generation. AFP can be contrasted with vows...

A man who was reportedly shooting at workers at a church was killed by Mississippi deputies who responded to the reports of an active shooter Saturday.Scott County Sheriff Mike Lee told Jackson news sources that shortly before 2 p.m. Saturday deputies received numerous reports that shots were being fired at workers at Mt. Zion Church on Blossom Hill Road.Deputies confronted the suspect, identified as Robert D. Bailey of Blossom Hill Road, from a tree line across the street from the church. Bailey was heavily armed with multiple guns, deputies said.Deputies then fired shots, killing Bailey. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation...

...By Wednesday, coronavirus patients will begin being treated in Mississippi’s second field hospital opened within days on the University of Mississippi Medical Center campus. The first emergency field hospital opened last week with federal government backing after hospitalizations began spiking in Mississippi; this one is being spearheaded by a Christian relief charity Samaritan’s Purse. The North Carolina-based relief organization arrived Sunday with more than 50 more medical professionals to erect tents with 32 more beds....

Norfolk-based USNS Comfort was deployed to help treat patients in the early days of the pandemic. Mississippi health officials hope it can be deployed again. NORFOLK, Va. — Hampton Roads could send help to one of the COVID-19 pandemic's hardest-hit states. Mississippi has requested the federal government send a military hospital ship such as the Norfolk-based USNS Comfort to help its overloaded hospitals with COVID-19 patients, state health official Jim Craig said Wednesday.... The University of Mississippi Medical Center has 127 COVID-19 patients, including 26 children, Dean LouAnn Woodward said Wednesday. About 90% of them are unvaccinated, she said. The...

Native American and white parents of multi-racial students at Lakeville Area Schools, alongside other Lakeville parents and students, have filed a federal lawsuit challenging the posting of Black Lives Matter posters on school property, claiming the schools refuse to post divergent views such as "All Lives Matter" and Blue Lives Matter posters. The lawsuit is filed against Independent School District 194 and Superintendent Michael Baumann. The plaintiffs named in the suit include Bob and Cynthia Cajune, Kaylynn Kay Aker, Lion 194, and others who are not identified. The lawsuit states Black Lives Matter posters were posted on school property in...

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A dozen Republican governors and more than 200 GOP members of Congress are wading into a court fight over a Mississippi law to restrict abortion, the outcome of which could have implications for similar measures across the country. On Thursday, attorneys for South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster, leader of the gubernatorial effort, submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in support of Mississippi, which wants to enforce its 2018 law that would ban abortion after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Mississippi’s Republican attorney general filed papers last week asking the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v....

CNN — Mississippi's attorney general told the Supreme Court on Thursday that Roe v. Wade was "egregiously wrong" and should be overturned as she urged the justices to allow a controversial law that bars most abortions after 15 weeks to go into effect. "The conclusion that abortion is a constitutional right has no basis in text, structure, history, or tradition" state Attorney General Lynn Fitch told the justices in a new brief, launching the opening salvo in the most important abortion-related dispute the court has heard in decades. Fitch said that the case for overruling Roe is "overwhelming." Roe v....

The state is appealing lower court rulings that struck down a law banning most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. The Supreme Court in Washington on Jan. 22, 2021.Stefani Reynolds / Bloomberg via Getty Images file

Mississippi’s health department is aiming to combat misinformation on COVID-19 by limiting users' ability to comment on its Facebook posts related to case numbers and vaccine distribution. Liz Sharlot, a spokeswoman for the Mississippi State Department of Health, told The Associated Press that the “comments section of our Facebook page has increasingly come to be dominated by misinformation about COVID-19.” Sharlot added that the false information included in the comments from various social media users could “mislead the public about the safety, importance and effectiveness of vaccination.” While the comments section is open on department posts related to other health...

With new mutations discovered every few weeks, many scientists now predict that Covid will continue circulating around the world for at least the next two to three years, requiring nations to reinstitute public health measures on an ad hoc basis for the foreseeable future

JACKSON, Miss. — Dr. Anthony Fauci says Mississippians who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 might want to keep wearing a mask. The nation's top infectious disease specialist made the suggestion because the state's vaccination rate is the lowest in the nation.