Another big Sunday for COVID-19:

New cases in 24 hours: up 1,352 to 145,173. Terrible for a Sunday, when testing is down from the week days. For example, the rise on Sunday last week was 874. It’s the highest daily increase reported on a Sunday, said Arkansas Covid.

Deaths: up 20 to 2,357

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Active cases: down 99 to 17,646

Hospitalizations: 962 on the state dashboard, up 37 from the total listed yesterday afternoon to a new record . The number on ventilators rose from 154 to 163.

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Will add the governor’s boilerplate when it arrives. Noted: He was busy today alibiing on a Sunday show for Donald Trump’s resistance to accepting his defeat, saying, “Nothing should short-circuit his ability to assure the fairness of the election.” Another reeking load from the governor. He still won’t flatly say Biden won. Will he ever?

UPDATE: Today’s gubernatorial blurb;

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There are 1,352 new COVID-19 cases in AR. We saw another increase in hospitalizations yesterday. At this rate we will soon have over 1,000 hospitalized due to COVID-19. Let’s remember the threat this is to our loved ones & the stress this puts on our heroic healthcare workers.

 

The line is open. But remember what Sen. Missy Irvin said yesterday: Thank goodness there were no further lockdowns because isn’t the economy wonderful?

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Also noted:

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