by media | Oct 13, 2020 | Informative, What’s Happening at MCI
Contact tracing follows case investigation and is a tool for detecting, monitoring, and helping people who may have been exposed to an individual with a communicable disease, such as COVID-19. In order to protect public health, health departments also administer...
by media | Oct 6, 2020 | Informative, What’s Happening at MCI
The virus that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Limited information is available about SARS-CoV-2 infection in U.S pregnant women.Cough (more than 50 percent) and shortness of breath (30 percent)...
by media | Sep 30, 2020 | Informative, What’s Happening at MCI
Influenza is an acute respiratory disease that is caused by influenza viruses, usually subtypes of influenza A or B. COVID-19 is caused by a coronavirus infection (called SARS-CoV-2).It is understood that COVID-19 and flu viruses reproduce in...
by media | Sep 29, 2020 | Informative, What’s Happening at MCI
In the height of technology, with the race to produce a vaccine and in the efforts to protect and make new discoveries, COVID 19 has shaken up our world as we once knew it. The aggravating feeling of getting to our favorite stores, restaurants, or markets doors then...
by MCI | Sep 16, 2020 | Informative, What’s Happening at MCI
What is COVID-19? COVID 19 stands for Coronavirus disease 2019 which appeared in late 2019. It is caused by a virus known as “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)”. How is COVID-19 spread? SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, spreads by...
by MCI Diagnostic Center | Apr 12, 2019 | What’s Happening at MCI
Thank you to the Mississippi Department of Human Services for awarding us the Medical Laboratory Services contract, in support of Oakley Youth Development...
