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State's uninsured hit hard by COVID-19: Tests cost hundreds out-of-pocket, adding to medical debt or deterring residents from seeking care

Posted in Area

Within days, the cough quickly escalated into a burning chest pain that dropped 30-year-old Brittany Marie Wells to her kitchen floor. "I started crying," Wells said. "My mom ended up calling my dad, telling him that we needed to go to the hospital." But she refused to go.

TOP NEWS

State's health care coverage gap provides 'double whammy' for many in pandemic

Posted less than 1 hour ago in State

As the death toll from the coronavirus pandemic surges in the nation, federal funds may soon be available to cover the hospital treatments for uninsured COVID-19 patients, President Donald Trump announced Friday.

MSU will send more than 550 ventilators to UMMC for COVID-19 response

Posted less than 1 hour ago in Starkville & Oktibbeha County

Gov. Tate Reeves mentioned Wednesday, during his announcement of a two-week "shelter-in-place" order due to the COVID-19 pandemic, that Mississippi State University would send ventilators to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.

Those veggies and flowers you never had time to grow? Just look at us now

Posted less than 1 hour ago in Community

Thursday's sun shone high and bright on 7-year-old Lucy Ann Richardson and big brother Craig, 14, as they helped their mom with gardening at home in Caledonia. Because of the novel coronavirus, Victoria and Chad Richardson's raised vegetable beds are about two to three weeks ahead of schedule than they'd normally be this time of year.

Portnoy places two stories in top 10 in national contest

Posted less than 1 hour ago in Columbus & Lowndes County

Ben Portnoy, sports reporter for The Dispatch, earned two top-10 finishes in this year's national Associated Press Sports Editors competition.

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SPORTS

Report: Mississippi State hires Clemson's Eric George as new CFO

Four-star quarterback Sawyer Robertson, who grew up watching Mike Leach at Texas Tech, is one of two signal callers from the Lone Star State to pledge to join Leach in Starkville.