About 31 percent of Mississippians who tested positive for coronavirus have been hospitalized.
. Currently, the rate of hospitalizations in the southern state stands at about 31 percent, with 332 people hospitalized out of 1,073 infections. Twenty-two people have already died in Mississippi due to COVID-19, the disease caused by coronavirus.
Comparatively, in the state of New York, which has the highest number of confirmed cases of any state nationwide, the hospitalization rate is currently significantly lower at about 22 percent. But New York also has more than 83,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus, while over 18,000 have been hospitalized and nearly 2,000 have died.
Close-up photo of an N95 respirator mask, which can help protect individuals from the coronavirus, during global pandemic in San Francisco, California on March 30Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves on Wednesday ordered all state residents to"shelter in place" after resisting such a move for several weeks.
"Every day, for the last several weeks, I have asked our health experts whether it is time for the ultimate action of a shelter-in-place order statewide," Reeves said in announcing the order, the"Yesterday, for the first time, we got the answer we had been anticipating. They told me we are now at the point in Mississippi's cycle where such drastic restrictions are required. Today is the day," the Republican governor said."We are announcing a shelter-in-place order.
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