Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Mississippi Coronavirus Hotline (7 days a week, 7 a.m.–7 p.m.): 877-978-6453

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Advisory from the State Health Officer on social gatherings: Due to rapidly rising COVID-19 cases, all residents of Mississippi should avoid any social gathering that includes individuals outside of the immediate family or household. MSDH recommends that Mississippians only participate in work, school or other absolutely essential activities, and avoid gatherings such as social events, sporting events, in-person church services, and weddings and funerals unless they involve only close family (preferably outdoors).

General Information

• COVID-19 vaccinations
• Counties with mask mandates and gathering restrictions
• COVID-19 overview, questions and answers, and other resources
• COVID-19 and You: Video Q & A with State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs
• ASL, Spanish and Vietnamese materials

COVID-19 in Mississippi

New Cases and Deaths as of December 16

County COVID-19 Data

Race and Ethnicity

• Total COVID-19 cases and deaths by county, race and ethnicity PDF
  Current and past data tables, updated daily

Data Snapshots for Individual Counties

• Weekly COVID-19 snapshots for each Mississippi county

High Cases and Incidence

• Map of Mississippi counties by 7-day incidence
• Table of counties ranked by weekly cases and incidence

Cumulative Cases and Deaths by County

Totals of all reported COVID-19 cases for 2020, including those in long-term care (LTC) facilities.

The numbers in this table are provisional. County case numbers and deaths may change as investigation finds new or additional information. The data provided below is the most current available.

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total LTC Facility Cases	Total LTC Facility Deaths
Adams	1644	52	72	14
Alcorn	1885	37	118	17
Amite	769	16	52	3
Attala	1490	43	162	28
Benton	586	19	45	10
Bolivar	2941	91	224	30
Calhoun	951	15	25	4
Carroll	873	17	46	9
Chickasaw	1355	35	48	14
Choctaw	441	10	1	0
Claiborne	631	18	43	9
Clarke	1085	55	104	27
Clay	1145	28	20	3
Coahoma	1780	47	127	11
Copiah	1997	42	72	9
Covington	1631	63	109	35
De Soto	12561	117	103	20
Forrest	4642	93	197	42
Franklin	491	6	4	1
George	1534	30	47	7
Greene	894	25	50	6
Grenada	1779	53	142	25
Hancock	1624	49	68	13
Harrison	9181	130	428	47
Hinds	12361	230	612	89
Holmes	1494	63	103	20
Humphreys	651	21	33	8
Issaquena	139	4	0	0
Itawamba	1932	46	119	22
Jackson	7711	145	209	23
Jasper	1130	24	11	0
Jefferson	434	12	17	3
Jefferson Davis	685	21	8	1
Jones	4536	91	198	38
Kemper	615	19	43	9
Lafayette	3752	70	160	42
Lamar	3610	52	44	12
Lauderdale	4357	159	353	85
Lawrence	857	15	27	2
Leake	1698	45	62	7
Lee	6595	106	204	40
Leflore	2388	98	197	48
Lincoln	2265	73	166	36
Lowndes	3507	74	139	37
Madison	6196	125	301	58
Marion	1518	55	144	18
Marshall	2587	58	61	15
Monroe	2580	83	176	53
Montgomery	908	30	54	9
Neshoba	2675	133	177	54
Newton	1369	32	66	11
Noxubee	843	17	21	4
Oktibbeha	2985	67	202	32
Panola	2800	67	99	13
Pearl River	2139	75	143	27
Perry	764	30	20	7
Pike	1939	65	103	27
Pontotoc	2684	34	20	3
Prentiss	1817	40	98	15
Quitman	556	7	0	0
Rankin	7636	140	294	42
Scott	1873	34	35	4
Sharkey	362	17	43	8
Simpson	1774	57	144	19
Smith	891	17	55	8
Stone	1015	18	63	9
Sunflower	2167	57	89	15
Tallahatchie	1113	29	39	7
Tate	2158	53	75	18
Tippah	1708	36	76	4
Tishomingo	1369	48	97	26
Tunica	679	19	15	2
Union	2358	27	97	11
Walthall	890	32	67	13
Warren	2243	67	156	31
Washington	3754	110	187	39
Wayne	1505	25	65	10
Webster	632	17	55	11
Wilkinson	489	22	21	5
Winston	1612	44	96	27
Yalobusha	860	30	81	22
Yazoo	1829	44	139	16
Total	187,904	4,320	8,686	1,599

Case Classifications

Mississippi investigates and reports both probable and confirmed cases and deaths according to the CSTE case definition.

	Confirmed	Probable	Total
Cases	136,835	51,069	187,904
Deaths	3,594	726	4,320

Confirmed cases and deaths are generally determined by positive PCR tests, which detect the presence of ongoing coronavirus infection.

Probable cases are those who test positive by other testing methods such as antibody or antigen, and have recent symptoms consistent with COVID-19, indicating a recent infection.

Probable deaths are those individuals with a designation of COVID-19 as a cause of death on the death certificate, but where no confirmatory testing was performed.

Deaths from COVID-19 and Other Causes

This table of death counts compares COVID-19 deaths in Mississippi by week with deaths from other major causes, including contributing and underlying causes.

• Mississippi Provisional Death Counts by Week
  Updated weekly

K-12 School Report

Mississippi K-12 schools make weekly reports of cases among students, teachers and staff, number of outbreaks, and teachers and students under quarantine as a result of COVID-19 exposure. An outbreak in a school setting is defined as 3 or more individuals diagnosed with COVID-19 in the same group within a 14-day period.

Note: These cases have been directly reported to MSDH by each school, and may not yet have appeared in our state and county totals of cases reported by laboratories.

• K-12 reports of COVID-19 school cases, outbreaks and exposure
  Updated weekly

Long-Term Care Facility Cases and Outbreaks

Long-term care (LTC) facilities like nursing homes are considered high risk locations because their residents are older or in poor health. A single confirmed COVID-19 infection in an LTC facility resident, or more than one infection in employees or staff in a 14-day period constitutes an outbreak. Residential care facilities also represent group living facilities where COVID-19 can be easily spread. We investigate residents, staff and close contacts of infected individuals for possible exposure.

These outbreak figures are reported directly to MSDH by the facility. Many of the cases and deaths reported by facilities may not yet be included in our totals of lab-reported cases.

• Mississippi COVID-19 cases and deaths in long-term care facilities PDF
  Long-term care facilities include nursing homes, personal care homes, assisted living homes, and intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disability (ICF-IID)

• Mississippi COVID-19 cases and deaths in residential care facilities PDF
  Residential care facilities include psychiatric or chemical dependency residential treatment centers and long-term acute care facilities.

Ongoing Outbreaks in Nursing Homes

Data such as illness in residents and staff, deaths in residents, as well as a number of other data elements are now publicly available on the website of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). MSDH is providing the following links to view this data, which is reported directly by nursing homes and is updated daily.

Note: Cases and deaths listed on the CMS website may not have appeared yet in our county totals, which are based on reports from testing laboratories.

• Search for nursing home COVID-19 data
• About the CMS COVID-19 dataset
• CMS state and national COVID-19 nursing home data

Mississippi COVID-19 Data Charts and Maps

All data reports below are updated as they become available.

Hospitalizations and Bed Availability

• View interactive hospitalization charts

Hospitalization and ICU Use to Date

Updated weekly

Daily Case Maps

• View all interactive maps

Recent COVID-19 Activity

The chart below shows counties according to COVID-19 incidence (cases by population) over the last 7 days.

• See also: Weekly county incidence tables

Cumulative COVID-19 Cases

Total cases and deaths by county since the start of the pandemic.

• See also: Weekly estimate of recoveries

Daily Statewide Data Charts

Our state case map and other data charts are also available in interactive form.

• View interactive epidemiological and surveillance charts

The charts below are based on available data at the time of publication. Charts do not include cases where insufficient details of the case are known.

Note: Values up to two weeks in the past on the chart of Cases by Date above can change as we update it with new information from disease investigation.

Weekly Statewide Data Summaries

Weekly Pediatric MIS-C Cases and Deaths

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a rare but serious condition associated with COVID-19 that causes inflammation in many body parts, including the heart and other vital organs.

Weekly High Case and High Incidence Counties

Tracking counties with recent high numbers of COVID-19 cases, adjusted for population, provides insight on where local outbreaks are most serious, and where protective measures should be increased. For more accurate reporting, these weekly charts include sample collection dates only up to seven days in the past to allow for case investigation and delays in lab test reports.

Cases counts in these charts is based on the date of illness onset. If the date of illness is not known, the date the test sample was taken, or the date of test result reporting is used instead. Counts are adjusted as cases are investigated.

Counties are ranked by highest weekly case counts, and by weekly incidence (cases proportional to population). A separate table ranking all counties is also available. All tables updated weekly.

• Full tables of counties ranked by weekly incidence and cases PDF

Syndromic Surveillance

Emergency department visits by those with symptoms characteristic of COVID-19, influenza and pneumonia, updated weekly.

Estimated Recoveries

Presumed COVID-19 cases recovered, estimated weekly (does not include cases still under investigation).

U.S. and World Cases

• COVID-19 cases in the United States (CDC)
• U.S. COVID-19 Tracker (CDC)
• COVID-19 Global Case Map (Johns Hopkins University)

COVID-19 Testing

Statewide Combined Testing as of December 12

COVID-19 testing providers around the state include commercial laboratories as well as hospital labs. Combined with testing done by the MSDH Public Health Laboratory, the figures provide a complete picture of all Mississippi testing. (Updated weekly)

PCR testing detects current, active COVID-19 infection in an individual.

Antibody (serology) testing identifies individuals with past COVID-19 infection based on antibodies they develop one to three weeks after infection.

Antigen testing is another way to identify current COVID-19 infection.

	Total tests	PCR	Antibody	Antigen
MSDH Public Health Laboratory	139,409	138,166	1,243	0
Other testing providers	1,468,394	1,075,763	56,362	336,269
Total tests for COVID-19 statewide	1,607,803	1,213,929	57,605	336,269

MSDH Individuals Tested as of December 17

MSDH Public Health Laboratory (MPHL) testing totals as of 3 p.m. These totals are for tests performed at the MPHL only.

• Total individuals tested by the MPHL: 95,068
• Total positive individuals from MPHL tests: 11,139

Getting Tested for COVID-19

The MSDH Public Health Laboratory, its partners, and private providers are testing statewide for COVID-19.

Anyone with symptoms of fever, severe cough or severe chest pains – especially those who are older or in poor health – should make arrangements for testing with their doctor or one of the many healthcare providers now performing testing. Always call ahead to the testing provider for instructions on safely being examined before you visit for your test.

Free testing: Free drive-through testing sites are offered at county health departments on a weekly schedule by appointment.

• Find a COVID-19 testing provider near you
• Free COVID-19 rapid testing schedule

Prevention and Guidance for Individuals and the Community

• Preventive steps to take, recommendations, guidance and general information on COVID-19