Dr. Christy appears regularly on The Delta News.  

Here are flu resources for all the states in The Delta, plus the national picture from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:

The Mississippi State Department of Health reported its first case of monkeypox July 25. 

For the latest COVID numbers, including trends, see the links below from The Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins University:

The Omicron-B variant has started to make its presence know in Mississippi with a slight rise in cases. Arkansas is reporting a mixture of high and low amounts of positives cases and Louisiana only has three parishes reporting a spike in cases. Despite the rise in Mississippi, there have bee…

       Delta News has been telling you this week -- the Mississippi State Department of Health announced COVID-19 vaccine shot appointments will be available at select Walmart locations across Mississippi beginning Friday.