Governor Hutchinson COVID-19 7/10/2020 Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZTiabC5D0
>Yesterday 26052 up 751 cases to 26803
>751 new cases- 149 in correctional, 602 in community
>5,847 are active cases= 123 in nursing homes, 584 correctional facilities, and 5,140 active community cases.
> Additional 650- total recovered 20642 recovered to date.
> Top counties for new cases: Hot Spring County- 145, Pulaski 100, Benton 54, Washington 51, Sebastian 42, Faulkner and Pope 25, Jefferson 23, Yell 21, Sevier 7
> Up 8 to 402 hospitalizations
> Up 4 deaths to 313
> 5,212 tests in last 24 hours
> Statewide growth rate by age group: 0-17= 20% growth rate, 18-24= 22% growth rate, 24-44= 18% growth rate, 45-64 = 17% growth rate, 65+ = 14% growth rate
> Testing results have gone back up to 2.5 days to get results back. This is due to increased testing. Wait time will continue to go up because of number of tests. Working to get more resources in commercial labs.
> Overall state positivity rate 7%
> Cases are going up in southern, southwestern states in a dramatic way. The virus does not let up. We cannot either and must work very hard to reduce the spread of the virus.
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Governor Hutchinson COVID-19 7/10/2020 Press Conference
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNZTiabC5D0
>Yesterday 26052 up 751 cases to 26803
>751 new cases- 149 in correctional, 602 in community
>5,847 are active cases= 123 in nursing homes, 584 correctional facilities, and 5,140 active community cases.
> Additional 650- total recovered 20642 recovered to date.
> Top counties for new cases: Hot Spring County- 145, Pulaski 100, Benton 54, Washington 51, Sebastian 42, Faulkner and Pope 25, Jefferson 23, Yell 21, Sevier 7
> Up 8 to 402 hospitalizations
> Up 4 deaths to 313
> 5,212 tests in last 24 hours
> Statewide growth rate by age group: 0-17= 20% growth rate, 18-24= 22% growth rate, 24-44= 18% growth rate, 45-64 = 17% growth rate, 65+ = 14% growth rate
> Testing results have gone back up to 2.5 days to get results back. This is due to increased testing. Wait time will continue to go up because of number of tests. Working to get more resources in commercial labs.
> Overall state positivity rate 7%
> Cases are going up in southern, southwestern states in a dramatic way. The virus does not let up. We cannot either and must work very hard to reduce the spread of the virus.
> We’ve worked hard on education- and it’s a national message as well as a state message about the benefits from a medical standpoint of wearing a mask. People understand that. You’d have to be hiding under a rock somewhere not to get the message that has been conveyed consistently as to how you protect others. But it’s also common sense as you can see that that protect you and others from the spread of the virus.
> Dr. Smith- the evidence is very clear that masks are very useful in source control. The idea of the masks we are wearing is that it will catch the respiratory droplets that come out of my nose, my mouth so they don’t get into the air and you don’t breathe them in.
> Dr. Smith- the evidence is very clear that masks are very useful in source control. The idea of the masks we are wearing is that it will catch the respiratory droplets that come out of my nose, my mouth so they don’t get into the air and you don’t breathe them in.