KTHV’s Dawn Scott reported on Twitter last night that the VA hospital in Little Rock had accepted a non-coronavirus patient from New Orleans, which is swamped by virus cases.

She noted that Gov. Asa Hutchinson had said during his briefing yesterday that Arkansas would help other states with patients and that Arkansas had sent five ventilators to Louisiana. He said the state couldn’t control federal hospital decisions in any case.

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