Latest: Less coronavirus cases, but number hospitalized sets new high

Published 2:16 pm Sunday, May 3, 2020

Mississippi’s COVID-19 coronavirus cases and deaths climbed Sunday, and the statistics showed by good and bad news.

State health officials reported 109 new cases, bring the total number of infections confirmed to be 7,550. Sunday’s report was the lowest number of new cases reported in a single day in more than three weeks.

The state reported 12 more people died in the state due to the virus, bringing the state’s total number of deaths to 303. Sunday’s death total is slightly above the prior 7-day average number of deaths reported.

The state reported that 123 deaths were of residents of long-term care facilities or 40 percent of all deaths in the state.

The more troublesome news was that the hospitalization rates topped a new all-time high.

On Sunday the state reported 458 confirmed coronavirus cases were hospitalized. That was a jump of 34 patients since yesterday’s report or 8 percent.

Another 209 suspected (but not yet confirmed by test) cases were also hospitalized, the state reported.

The state said 143 patients were in ICU beds and 73 required mechanical ventilation. Both statistics were slightly higher than the prior day.

Here are the county by county numbers:

County	Total Cases	Total Deaths	Total LTC Facility Cases	Total LTC Facility Deaths
Adams	148	9	24	4
Alcorn	10	1	0	0
Amite	28	0	1	0
Attala	117	2	35	2
Benton	12	0	1	0
Bolivar	107	7	14	1
Calhoun	55	4	23	4
Carroll	62	2	3	1
Chickasaw	76	8	25	6
Choctaw	13	1	0	0
Claiborne	28	0	0	0
Clarke	61	3	10	2
Clay	48	2	0	0
Coahoma	69	3	0	0
Copiah	116	1	2	1
Covington	66	0	0	0
Desoto	298	4	1	1
Forrest	232	14	21	7
Franklin	17	1	0	0
George	14	1	0	0
Greene	5	1	0	0
Grenada	34	1	14	1
Hancock	68	5	6	3
Harrison	181	6	1	1
Hinds	507	8	15	4
Holmes	161	9	27	2
Humphreys	24	4	6	2
Itawamba	63	4	32	3
Jackson	267	7	39	1
Jasper	55	1	0	0
Jefferson	22	0	0	0
Jefferson Davis	40	1	2	0
Jones	172	2	12	0
Kemper	76	3	19	1
Lafayette	91	3	35	0
Lamar	117	2	1	0
Lauderdale	380	26	91	14
Lawrence	50	0	1	0
Leake	233	2	0	0
Lee	71	4	5	0
Leflore	168	17	42	7
Lincoln	151	11	48	7
Lowndes	60	3	5	2
Madison	272	9	33	6
Marion	75	7	14	2
Marshall	47	2	0	0
Monroe	175	16	87	14
Montgomery	32	1	0	0
Neshoba	214	4	25	0
Newton	93	0	1	0
Noxubee	79	1	9	1
Oktibbeha	52	3	9	3
Panola	40	2	0	0
Pearl River	177	20	41	6
Perry	29	1	0	0
Pike	155	7	12	4
Pontotoc	22	2	3	0
Prentiss	32	1	20	1
Quitman	15	0	0	0
Rankin	200	6	5	0
Scott	358	2	9	1
Sharkey	5	0	0	0
Simpson	48	0	2	0
Smith	79	4	23	2
Stone	22	0	0	0
Sunflower	56	2	0	0
Tallahatchie	12	1	0	0
Tate	43	0	1	0
Tippah	57	10	0	0
Tishomingo	8	0	1	0
Tunica	36	2	12	2
Union	27	2	7	1
Walthall	33	0	0	0
Warren	81	2	5	0
Washington	77	3	4	1
Wayne	24	0	0	0
Webster	19	1	0	0
Wilkinson	69	7	5	2
Winston	47	0	0	0
Yalobusha	20	0	0	0
Yazoo	147	2	0	0
Total	7,550	303	889	123