'All of a Sudden It Blows Up': Arkansas' COVID Problem Is Just Getting Started
For months, New Yorkers saw their hospitals flood with COVID-19 patients and bodies pile up in refrigerated overflow morgue trucks. Meanwhile, other parts of the country never even implemented a statewide lockdown.
For those hoping a slew of Southern and rural states might have avoided the worst of the pandemic entirely, Friday’s case counts provided a grim answer.
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“It is important for our community to understand that we are not seeing more hospitalizations simply because more testing is being done,” added Wright. “We are seeing more hospitalizations because more people in our area are being infected with the virus.”
In the past week, Wright said, Washington Regional had seen a 170 percent increase in the number of tests performed at screening clinics, and a 350 percent increase in the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Of those, it also saw more critically ill virus patients, with more than 30 percent of those who’d been hospitalized requiring ventilator support.
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still alive a year from now will look back on now as the "good ole days.", I was just assuming what the science was saying was right.
Rump is a fascist and the dumbest adult on earth and he is killing us, he will kill millions of us before his actions are done. Even if a miracle happens and putin allows us to have an election (the election done properly guarantees Joe wins if we do our jobs) and Joe is put in we still will suffer tremendously DIRECTLY because of the traitor and ALL OF YOU FUCKERS OUT THERE who support him
YOU are ALL killers...every last one of you. 
Here, too in Memphis area.
New cases daily were ~80. Now nearly 200/day. 
That is what they say here: "It's just the flu." 😳🤯
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