Mississippi Today Editor-At-Large Marshall Ramsey sits down with Dr. LouAnn Woodward, Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs at the University of Mississippi Medical Center and Dean of the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and discusses the challenges Mississippi’s largest healthcare provider and teaching hospital faces because of COVID-19.
Woodward discusses how COVID-19 has aggravated Mississippi’s existing health challenges, how UMMC has adapted to the “new normal,” ways that she combats personal stress and where Mississippi is headed in the near term with COVID and the flu seasons hitting at the same time.
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