Arkansas on Monday began administering its first doses of the coronavirus vaccine as the state reported 45 more deaths from the illness caused by the virus.
Five health care workers, including the state’s surgeon general, were the first to be vaccinated during a news conference at the Arkansas Health Department. The first person vaccinated was Sherian Kwanisai, the department’s nursing director for local public health.
“I’m excited,” said Kelley Garner, program manager with the department’s Healthcare Acquired Infections Program, who was the second to get vaccinated. “I know this is the first step to getting back to normal.”
Gov. Asa Hutchinson tweeted that the state received the frozen vials made by Pfizer Inc. and its German partner BioNTech earlier Monday morning and that other shipments were expected later in the day. The governor said all of these shots will go to Arkansas health care workers.
- THE ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH REPORTED MONDAY AFTERNOON THERE WERE 1,355 NEW COVID 19 CASES IN THE STATE BRINGING THE TOTAL TO 187,057 CASES..ACTIVE CASES DECREASED BY 704 TO 20,691…DEATHS WERE UP BY 45 TO 2,990. HOSPITALIZATIONS DROPPED BY SEVEN TO 1,050 AND COVID PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS DECREASED BY 1 TO 180…COUNTY BY COUNTY NUMBERS SHOWED SHARP WITH 118 ACTIVE CASES AND 26 DEATHS, FULTON WITH 57 CASES AND 18 DEATHS, IZARD HAS 43 CASES AND SEVEN DEATHS, LAWRENCE 98 CASES AND 33 DEATHS, RANDOLPH WITH 152 CASES AND 36 DEATHS, BAXTER 176 CASES AND 40 DEATHS, STONE 83 CASES AND 25 DEATHS AND INDEPENDENCE WITH 162 CASES AND 77 DEATHS..
MISSOURI REPORTED 2,562 NEW COVID 19 CASES AS OF MONDAY AFTERNOON WITH A STATE TOTAL OF 347,603..DEATHS INCREASED BY THREE TO 4,514…HOSPITALIZATIONS WERE DOWN BY 13 TO 2,625 AND COVID PATIENTS ON VENTILATORS WAS UP BY THREE TO 335… MISSOURI’S POSITIVITY RATE CONTINUES TO DROP AND IS NOW AT 17.8%.. OREGON COUNTY HAS 479 CASES AND TWO DEATHS; HOWELL HAS 2,073 CASES AND 34 DEATHS, OZARK HAS 343 CASES AND 4 DEATHS, TANEY HAS 3,423 CASES AND 46 DEATHS, DOUGLAS HAS 520 CASES AND 18 DEATHS, TEXAS COUNTY HAS 1,148 CASES AND 10 DEATHS AND SHANNON HAS 381 CASES AND 9 DEATHS..
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