Mississippi Has the Highest Rate of COVID-19 Hospitalizations of Any State

Doctors test hospital staff with flu-like symptoms for COVID-19 in set-up tents to triage possible COVID-19 patients outside before they enter the main Emergency department area at St. Barnabas hospital in the Bronx in New York City on March 24, 2020. Misha Friedman/Getty Images

Mississippi now has the highest rate of CCP virus hospitalizations out of anywhere in the United States, according to new data.

Currently, 31 percent of COVID-19 patients are hospitalized across the state, according to state health department data gathered by The COVID Tracking Project.