By Sarah Komar and Mary HenniganArkansascovid.com Daily new cases of COVID-19 in children age 17 and younger have risen sharply in the two months since the delta variant became the dominant strain…
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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 Jacob JacksonArkansasCovid.com Arkansas COVID-19 hospitalizations have been falling slowly in recent weeks, but medical professionals still report concern about sufficient staffing, intensive care beds and rehabilitation for the thousands stricken by…
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…
By Rachell Sanchez-SmithArkansascovid.com As cases continue to spike, Arkansas faces low vaccination rates and divisions over COVID-19. We reviewed reader comments and spoke to a leading medical expert to answer the questions…
By Mary Hennigan and Rob WellsArkansascovid.com Arkansas public schools reported a total of 4,791 active COVID-19 cases on Thursday, a 23% increase from a survey on Monday, according to state health data. …
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 Rachell Sanchez-SmithArkansascovid.com Children under age 18 represent 30% of active COVID-19 cases, Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Tuesday at his weekly press conference. The delta variant of the virus, far more contagious…
By Rachell Sanchez-Smith Arkansascovid.com More than 10,000 Arkansas children stand to be infected by COVID-19 as the pandemic reaches levels not seen since last winter’s surge, the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences…
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…