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I found out this morning someone I interviewed without a mask but properly distanced tested positive for the coronavirus. The plan was (and still is) to get tested 3-5 days after that just to make sure I don’t have any issues. Still, I decided to get tested today.

And then came the call the test came back positive. To say I was concerned would be an understatement. And then there was what this would do to my wife and my coworkers.

My wife, a medical professional who has been on top of COVID from the start, said I should get a second test at a clinic just to be sure. I didn’t want to go, but I was hoping this test would come back negative.

As I waited for the test result, I read on Facebook that a former classmate of mine at Smithville died at the hospital in Tupelo from COVID. I had not seen John Turner since 2016 when this picture was taken before Christmas while I was doing a story about the helicopter the hospital uses.

Just minutes later came word that this latest test was negative. I was told it should be more reliable than the one I got earlier. Also, I’m vaccinated, and I showed no symptoms.

I cannot adequately describe how relieved I was hearing about my life for the moment changed for the better.

I also cannot adequately describe how saddened I was by a family losing someone they loved dearly because of this terrible virus.

So when I say it’s been a day, it’s been a day.

	SMITHVILLE (3-1)		AMORY (2-2)		HATLEY (0-4)
August 27	Belmont L COVID		IAHS L 35-14		at Hamilton L COVID
September 2	at Hatley W 33-13				Smithville L 33-13
September 3			at Caledonia L 30-18
September 10	Hamilton W 31-0		Mooreville W 51-21		Mantachie L 32-0
September 17	at Alcorn Central W 33-20		at North Pontotoc W 38-7		at Belmont L 47-0
September 24	Ashland		Houston		at Holly Springs
October 1	at Okolona		at Aberdeen		Noxubee County
October 8	Biggersville		Hatley		at Amory
October 15	at Falkner		at Noxubee County		Nettleton
October 22	H.W. Byers				at Aberdeen
October 29	at TCPS		Nettleton		Kossuth
November 1	Thrasher

Recent email to the newsroom:

If you would, please make sure you keep the control room mics off as much as possible. The hearing in my right ear, which I ruined working an assignment desk years ago, has diminished significantly in recent months. So while I can hear fine in the left ear which has my IFB, I’m struggling to hear the meteorologist in my other ear. That makes it difficult when we’re transitioning out of weather and I can’t hear what he/she is saying if the mic is left open.

Thanks,
Craig Ford
Assistant News Director
Anchor/Reporter
WTVA/WLOV
Tupelo-Columbus, Miss.
(662) 842-7620 Ext. 27