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Kirk Siegler

Brought 'to the brink' by the pandemic, a Mississippi clinic is rebounding strong

Dr. Mary Williams opened Urgent and Primary Care of Clarksdale in 2018 to address historical gaps and disparities in health care in her Mississippi Delta hometown. (Kirk Siegler/NPR)

CLARKSDALE, Miss. — The nation's poorest state, Mississippi, was hit hard by the pandemic, often holding the dubious ranking of having some of the country's highest case numbers and deaths.

"I compare Covid in Mississippi to Katrina in New Orleans," says Dr. Mary Williams, a licensed nurse practitioner who owns Urgent and Primary Care of Clarksdale. "You saw how the hurricane did. Covid did that to us."

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