Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves: We Have a Mask Mandate in 13 of Our 82 Counties

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REEVES: “Well, what I would tell you is that we had a conversation with Dr. Birx in the middle of this week. In fact, she was in our state. We had a very good conversation. When you look at their model what, they look at is they’re looking at two things. Has any particular county had more than a hundred cases in the last seven days? And is the test positivity rate greater than 10%? The model that we’re actually looking at is very similar. But we say if you have as a county 200 cases in the last 14 days or if you have over 500 per 100,000 residents over the last 14 days, then we’re going to implement additional and more strict measures. We’ve already done that. We don’t have a statewide mask mandate in Mississippi, but we do in 13 of our 82 counties. The one thing your previous guest mentioned that I will agree with is the fact that we have to take a surgical approach. Now, I don’t understand how you can argue that we have to take a surgical approach to the Coronavirus and then advocate for a top-down management approach from Washington where they make all the decisions. There’s no question in the county that our capital city is in, in Hines county, we’ve got to take on additional measures where we do in another county where we’ve only had four cases. We are looking at bars, we’ve talked a lot about bars and the potential spread there over the last six or seven days and we’re taking stock of what’s going on there. And we may implement additional”