UMMC is setting up a field hospital in Parking Garage B. Let me repeat that — in a parking garage. Over 4,000 new cases a day with a death rate of 2.2% equals misery, pain and the potential collapse of the Mississippi hospital system. While Katrina was a horrific disaster that happened in our faces, the current delta tsunami is happening behind closed doors and in ICUs out of sight. It’s crushing, painful and sadly, avoidable.
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