According to Governor Tate Reeves the rolling seven day average for coronavirus cases is just below 200 and hospitalizations are down 88 percent. He says he wants to keep cases low with summer approaching. Reeves is encouraging people who are hesitant to get vaccinated.
“We now have 100 million Americans that have gotten at least one shot. And so to my knowledge there hasn’t been any single side effect that has caused any major large number of poor outcomes,” said Reeves.
Several doctors joined Reeves at a news conference to discuss questions they’re hearing from people, like the vaccine’s fast approval process. State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs.
“They basically did production and clinical trials at the same time. And if the clinical trials, the studies on people didn’t do what they wanted them to do, they threw the vaccine out,” said Dobbs.
Dr. Meredith Travelstead an obstetrician/gynecologist says no pregnant women were involved in the trials, a concern for some mothers-to-be. She says the CDC has a database of pregnant women who’ve documented their reactions to the vaccine.
“They haven’t seen increased stillbirths, increased miscarriages, other complications and anomalies in the pregnancies. They have not seen any increases compared to the populations,” said Travelstead.
Dr. Dobbs says people should be vaccinated while the case numbers are low because coronavirus variants may pose a serious health risk in the future.
