Military doctors shore up exhausted health teams in US south amid Covid surge

Low vaccination rates fueling crisis as four pregnant women die in a Mississippi hospital and Kentucky governor calls situation dire'

Military doctors and other federal emergency personnel are shoring up exhausted health teams in some parts of the US south where low vaccination rates are fueling the latest Covid-19 crisis.

As many hospitals struggle to avoid being overwhelmed, one hospital in Louisiana praised Pentagon medics for helping them cope, while health officials in Mississippi reported that four pregnant women died of Covid-19 in one a hospital there, and the governor of Kentucky called the situation in his state dire".