By Mary HenniganArkansasCovid.com As the school semester comes to a close for the holiday season in Arkansas, the total combined active COVID-19 cases in all institutions was about 1,300 on Dec. 6,…
By Mary HenniganArkansasCovid.com Arkansas had more than 15,000 new COVID-19 illnesses in November, down about 1,500, or 8%, from October, even though cases started picking up toward the end of the month.…
By Mary HenniganArkansascovid.com Arkansas health officials reported 289 COVID-19 deaths on Sunday, a large one-day total that represented a data records update that brought the total statewide pandemic death count to 8,120.…
By Mary Hennigan and Rachell Sanchez-Smith ArkansasCovid.com With 757 deaths, September was the fourth deadliest month of the pandemic in Arkansas even though active COVID-19 cases fell by more than half from…
By Mary Hennigan Arkansascovid.com Labor Day cookouts and crowds at high school and college football games led state officials and health experts to believe COVID-19 infections would jump across the state, but active…
By Mary HenniganArkansascovid.com Active COVID-19 cases in the Arkansas public school districts declined for the first time since the beginning of the school year, according to the Sept. 9 Arkansas Department of…
Por Mary Hennigan Arkansascovid.com Ocho meses después del último máximo importante en el estado de casos y muertes de COVID-19, Arkansas experimentó otro mes brutal de la pandemia con la muerte de…
By Mary Hennigan Arkansascovid.com Eight months after the state’s last major spike in COVID-19 cases and deaths, Arkansas experienced another brutal month of the pandemic with the death of 793 people from…
By Mary HenniganArkansascovid.com Within the first two weeks of the new school year, Arkansas’s public school districts reported 2,005 new active COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of illnesses in public schools…
By Mary Hennigan Arkansascovid.com Bikes, Blues and BBQ organizers postponed Fayetteville’s annual motorcycle rally after a major hospital, city health officials and the University of Arkansas expressed concern the event, which attracts…