State to give 500k masks to Arkansas schools
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Gov Hutchinson presses forward with allowing schools to have mask mandates
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Deaths, COVID hospitalizations spike in Arkansas on Monday
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Total Active Cases: 11,903 (+428)
Total Deaths: 6,020 (+13)
Hospitalized: 848 (+33) 131 on ventilators (+25)
Eligible Arkansans Fully Vaccinated: 1,031,367 (+2,666) 40.44% of the population
Gov. Asa Hutchinson will be in Siloam Springs on Friday, July 30, in part of his Community COVID Conversations tour. He will field questions from citizens and combat misinformation surrounding COVID-19 vaccines.
Oklahoma reported over 1,000 COVID-19 cases for the second time in a week on Wednesday. Health officials there are worried about the spread of the Delta variant due to low vaccination rates and an uptick in cases in Arkansas and Missouri.
Arkansans who are vaccinated still contracting COVID-19, referred to as breakthrough cases, are confusing people hesitant to get the shots. Health leaders still say that most COVID patients hospitalized are unvaccinated and that the vaccine doesn t mean you will not contract the virus, just that the symptoms will not be life-threatening in m