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Mississippi COVID-19 Case and Testing Statistics

As of Sunday March 07 2021, Mississippi had 297,581 cases of COVID-19 and 6,808 deaths. Over the past week, Mississippi was finding 398 new cases per day on average and recording 18.1 deaths per day. Data for Mississippi is provided by the COVID Tracking Project and will be updated daily.

Compare Mississippi COVID-19 data to other states.

Mississippi average daily new cases

The current 7 day rolling average of new case discovery in Mississippi is 398.0. The 7 day rolling average of new case discovery last peaked on Sunday January 10 2021 at 2,431.6 and is now 2,033.6 lower (83.63%). From a post peak low of 356.1 on Wednesday February 24 2021, the 7 day rolling average of new case discovery for Mississippi has now grown by 41.9 (11.75%).

Note: If testing is insufficient the above curve will underrepresent true case discovery. Nationwide daily testing per million residents is currently 4221.6. Reported Mississippi testing per million residents per day is 1246.8. Mississippi testing may be underreported or insufficient relative to the US as a whole.

Mississippi average daily deaths

The current 7 day rolling average of reported deaths in Mississippi is 18.1. The 7 day rolling average of reported deaths last peaked on Sunday January 17 2021 at 50.6 and is now 32.4 lower (64.12%). From a post peak low of 10.9 on Tuesday February 23 2021, the 7 day rolling average of reported deaths for Mississippi has now grown by 7.3 (67.11%).

Statistics for positive cases of COVID-19 in Mississippi

Total Cases and Total Cases per 1M residents are cumulative counts. Daily Positive measures are rolling 7 day averages.

Date Total
Cases
Total
Cases
per 1M
Daily
Positives
(7d Avg)
Daily
Positives
per 1M
(7d Avg)
03/07/21 297,581 99,989 398 133.7
03/06/21 297,321 99,901 461 155.0
03/05/21 296,745 99,708 458 153.8
03/04/21 296,154 99,509 478 160.5
03/03/21 295,675 99,348 541 181.6
03/02/21 295,295 99,221 582 195.5
03/01/21 294,994 99,119 589 197.8
02/28/21 294,795 99,053 595 199.8
02/27/21 294,091 98,816 550 184.8
02/26/21 293,542 98,631 521 175.2
02/25/21 292,811 98,386 468 157.4
02/24/21 291,891 98,077 356 119.7
02/23/21 291,222 97,852 358 120.4
02/22/21 290,874 97,735 413 138.9
02/21/21 290,632 97,654 457 153.4

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Death statistics for COVID-19 in Mississippi

Total Deaths and Total Deaths per 1M residents are cumulative counts. Daily Death measures are rolling 7 day averages.

Date Total
Deaths
Total
Deaths
per 1M
Daily
Deaths
(7d Avg)
Daily
Deaths
per 1M
(7d Avg)
03/07/21 6,808 2,287.5 18.1 6.1
03/06/21 6,805 2,286.5 19.4 6.5
03/05/21 6,783 2,279.1 20.7 7.0
03/04/21 6,764 2,272.7 21.6 7.2
03/03/21 6,743 2,265.7 19.7 6.6
03/02/21 6,724 2,259.3 21.0 7.1
03/01/21 6,681 2,244.8 18.3 6.1
02/28/21 6,681 2,244.8 18.3 6.1
02/27/21 6,669 2,240.8 16.6 5.6
02/26/21 6,638 2,230.4 14.9 5.0
02/25/21 6,613 2,222.0 11.7 3.9
02/24/21 6,605 2,219.3 11.6 3.9
02/23/21 6,577 2,209.9 10.9 3.6
02/22/21 6,553 2,201.8 12.7 4.3
02/21/21 6,553 2,201.8 13.0 4.4

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COVID-19 testing statistics in Mississippi

All measures below are rolling 7 day averages except Total Tests and Total Tests per 1M residents which are cumulative counts of COVID-19 tests as of the date reported. Testing statistics are dependent on high quality reporting of negative test results by states. Not all states report all tests and thus some of these measures may not represent the true testing picture.

Date Total
Tests
Total
Tests
per 1M
Daily
Tests
(7d Avg)
Daily
Tests
per 1M
(7d Avg)
Daily
Positive
Rate
(7d Avg)
03/07/21 1,756,955 590,345 3,711 1,247 10.7%
03/06/21 1,756,695 590,258 3,774 1,268 12.2%
03/05/21 1,756,119 590,064 3,770 1,267 12.1%
03/04/21 1,755,528 589,866 3,790 1,274 12.6%
03/03/21 1,755,049 589,705 3,853 1,295 14.0%
03/02/21 1,754,669 589,577 3,894 1,309 14.9%
03/01/21 1,754,368 589,476 3,901 1,311 15.1%
02/28/21 1,730,981 581,618 6,709 2,254 8.9%
02/27/21 1,730,277 581,381 6,665 2,239 8.2%
02/26/21 1,729,728 581,197 6,636 2,230 7.9%
02/25/21 1,728,997 580,951 6,583 2,212 7.1%
02/24/21 1,728,077 580,642 6,471 2,174 5.5%
02/23/21 1,727,408 580,417 6,473 2,175 5.5%
02/22/21 1,727,060 580,300 6,528 2,193 6.3%
02/21/21 1,684,015 565,837 5,135 1,725 8.9%

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A final word on this analysis

Please take my calculations and amatuer epidemiological speculations with a grain of salt as I'm moving quickly to get what I hope are meaningful measures online. There may be errors in my data and my thinking! Also, this data may be revised as states revise and backfill their data.

These statistics were inspired by posts on Calculated Risk and the Bondad Blog regarding metrics to track for COVID-19.

Last but not least, thanks to the folks at COVID Tracking Project for making this data available to everyone.