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
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.
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;
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?
Also noted:
The last seven days totaled 12,133 cases, according to the ADH. It was the highest week of the pandemic by nearly 1,000 cases. @maryhennigan_ https://t.co/PeEHexjhTz
— ArkansasCovid (@ArkansasCovid) November 22, 2020
Nov. 22 had 20 reported new deaths, according to the ADH. This is the 11th day in November the reported daily deaths have been at least 20. pic.twitter.com/nTG0A0xJuj
— ArkansasCovid (@ArkansasCovid) November 22, 2020