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Cases of coronaviruses increase throughout the southern United States this summer, but the overvoltage is so high in a single state that it can become the best hotspot of the country any day now.

Mississippi is on the right track to become state No. 1 in new cases of coronaviruses, taking up the current leader, Florida. These are the conclusions of Harvard's scientists,NPR reported Monday.

As of August 3, Mississippi recorded 42.2 new cases of daily coronaviruses per 100,000 people. This is the second highest rate of the nation (just below Florida 43.6). Only 17% of the state beds are available.

"Our icus are full. I mean, it's essential," Dr. Louann Woodward, the top of the leadership of the University of Mississippi medical center told the NPR.

Mississippi also ranks second in positive coronavirus testing: its seven-day average is 21.1%. Health experts say a 5% or less positivity rate means that enough people are tested.

"We have to do something different."

In Mississippi, there is still no condition mask requirement. Restaurants and bars are open to interior service and children are planned to return to schools this week. "It's very difficult because as a group of citizens, in the Mississippi, there is a lot of value that is placed on the individual's ability to make decisions about their own lives," Woodward said. "The citizens of Mississippi are very useful that the freedom to make their own decisions and not to be informed about what to do on hot spots and on the basis of digits identified in the state of the state."

At present, there are mask requirements in 37 on 82 counties. "The governor is practically on a daily basis by adding new counties to the mask mandate because we have an increase in business in particular counties", Said Boardward. "And I wish it would be held at a mask mandate. But there are many citizens ... that would not support that. So, our state officials are in a pickuch, honestly, because 'They are linked between what the medical profession do they tell them and what they know would be the opinion of many people in the state of Mississippi who would prefer not to be told, but prefer to wear the mask If they feel they should. "

But with rising cases, state officials may have to take more drastic measures. "Speaking from a medical point of view, if you look at the data, what we did has not changed the trajectory of our number of hospitalizations, the number of new cases, etc.," said Woodward. "We have to do something different."

Fears on school reopinitions

In Twitter Monday night, Woodward called for a state mask mandate and asked the state to delay the first day of school to the Labor Day. Earlier in the day, Dr. Thomas Hobbs expressed concern about the projects to restart lessons this week.

"It's impossible to imagine that we were not going to pay the child collision price in schools right now," Hobbs said at a Q & A video. "There is simply no plausible scenario where it is not going to be bad."

No matter where you live: wear your face mask, do you test if you think of coronavirus, avoid crowds (and bars and evenings of the house), practice social distance, only manage essential races, Wash your hands regularly, disinfect frequently affected areas, and to cross this pandemic with your healthiest, do not miss these37 places you are most likely to catch coronavirus.