Amid the worst pandemic in a century, Mississippi is leading the nation in increased diabetes deaths per capita, according to a just-released study, putting massive strain on the state’s frontline workers and hospitals.
Jerry Mitchell’s report for the Mississippi Center for Investigative Journalism, also published in the Jackson Clarion Ledger, describes how the state’s largest hospital has been forced to set up two additional field hospitals to handle the increased number of patients and how frontline workers and nurses are outnumbered and overworked.