Dobbs on Mississippi’s highest one-day numbers

Mississippi saw its highest single day COVID-19 numbers.

STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.KEEGAN, DR. DOBBS SAYS WE AREFAILING AS A STATE WHEN IT COMESTO GETTING A HANDLE ONCORONAVIRUS AND A LOT OF THATHINGES ON THE FACT THAT PEOPLEARE NOT WEARING MASKS AND THEYARE NOT SOCIAL DISTANCING WHENTHEY ARE OUT IN PUBLIC PLACES.DR. DAVID SAYS FIVE MONTHS INTOTHIS PANDEMIC.WE SHOULD SEE CASES DROPPINGRIGHT NOW, BUT BECAUSE PEOPLEARE ABANDONING THOSE SOCIALDISTANCING GUIDELINES.WE ARE ACTUALLY SEEING CASESSPIKE IN MISSISSIPPI.DAVID SAYS THAT HE IS FEARFULTHAT WHEN FALL ARRIVES WE’REACTUALLY HEADED FOR A DISASTER.BUT BE VERY CLEAR AND WARNEVERYONE THAT WE’RE LOOKING ATREALLY A BAD SCENARIO BECAUSEWE’RE NOT ABLE TO THOSE SIMPLETHINGS.WE REALLY DO NEED TO FOLLOW THEGUIDANCE THAT IT EXISTS THECURRENT EXECUTIVE ORDERS THATLIMIT GATHERINGS AND ON APERSONAL BASIS, YOU KNOW, THESMALLER THE GROUP THE BETTER.NOW DOBBS SAYS IF WE DON’TADDRESS THIS SURGE IN THE FALL,WE COULD SEE AS MANY AS FIVETIMES THE AMOUNT OF CASES THATWE HAVE RIGHT NOW.HE ALSO TALKED ABOUT THE ISSUESTHAT MS.D H HAS LATELY HAD CORONAVIRUSCASES THE LAST BASICALLY WEEK WEHAVEN’T SEEN DAILY REPORTS TABLESAYS THAT HIS DEPARTMENT ISTRYING TO PROCESS MILLIONS OFDATA POINTS ON OUR SOFTWARESYSTEM.THAT’S ABOUT 10 YEARS OLD ANDACTUALLY WAS NOT DESIGNED FORWHAT IT IS USED FOR.HE SAYS THAT THEY ARE SWITCHINGOVER TO A SYSTEM THAT BYPASSESSOME OF THE PROBLEMS THATTHEY’VE BEEN HAVING WITHDELIVERING THE DATA IS NODETAILS RIGHT NOW AND EXACTLYWHEN THAT WILL HAPPEN REPORTINGLIVE AT THE STATE DEPARTM