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Governor Asa Hutchinson and Dr. Nathaniel Smith, Secretary of the Arkansas Department of Health, confirm 7,158 Active Cases of COVID-19 in Arkansas with 521 Total Deaths, with 40,360 recovered, for a total of 48,039 total Confirmed Cases in Arkansas.
At the time of this press conference, TOTAL OF 6,224 tests given in the past 24 hours, a total of 523 are Hospitalized, 116 ICU Patients, as of 2:30 pm as of August 7, 2020.
Counties with COVID-19 cases: broke out as total active (Counties Ranked by Active Cases), then by total positive, total negative, total recoveries and deaths in the Timeless 106.1 KFFB listening area (as of 4:00 pm on Friday, August 7, 2020, from the ADH website):
Pulaski County Active Positive: 770, Total Positive: 5,407, Recovered: 4,554, Deaths: 83, Negatives: 62,892
Pope County Active Positive: 173, Total Positive: 1,282, Recovered: 1,099, Deaths: 10, Negatives: 9,943
Faulkner County Active Positive: 147, Total Positive: 1,278, Recovered: 1,125, Deaths: 6, Negatives: 17,222
Independence Active Positive: 223, Total Positive: 483, Recovered: 259, Deaths: 1, Negatives: 4,620
Lonoke County Active Positive: 115, Total Positive: 495, Recovered: 378, Deaths: 2, Negatives: 7,832
White County Active Positive: 65, Total Positive: 312, Recovered: 245, Deaths: 2, Negatives: 6,107
Jackson County Active Positive: 22, Total Positive: 77, Recovered: 54, Deaths: 1, Negatives: 2,385
Conway County Active Positive: 21, Total Positive: 147, Recovered: 123, Deaths: 3, Negatives: 3,021
Cleburne County Active Positive: 20, Total Positive: 194, Recovered: 169, Deaths: 5, Negatives: 3,286
Stone County Active Positive: 17, Total Positive: 64, Recovered: 46, Deaths: 1, Negatives: 1,713
Baxter County Active Positive: 15, Total Positive: 69, Recovered: 54, Deaths: 0, Negatives: 3,301
Sharp County Active Positive: 14, Total Positive: 109, Recovered: 90, Deaths: 5, Negatives: 1,641
Izard County Active Positive: 12, Total Positive: 50, Recovered: 37, Deaths: 1, Negatives: 1,393
Fulton County Active Positive: 8, Total Positive: 35, Recovered: 27, Deaths: 0, Negatives: 1,286
Marion County Active Positive: 6, Total Positive: 25, Recovered: 19, Deaths: 0, Negatives: 1,265
Van Buren County Active Positive: 5, Total Positive: 52, Recovered: 45, Deaths: 2, Negatives: 1,534
Perry County Active Positive: 3, Total Positive: 50, Recovered: 47, Deaths: 0, Negatives: 1,421
Searcy County Active Positive: 3, Total Positive: 28, Recovered: 25, Deaths: 0, Negatives: 1,102
Notes from past News Conferences
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If you are unemployed text the word, “unemployment” to 501-376-1111
ADH has activated a call center to answer questions from health care providers and the public about the novel coronavirus. During normal business hours (8:00 am – 4:30 pm), urgent and non-urgent calls, please call 1-800-803-7847 or email ADH.CoronaVirus@arkansas.gov. After normal business hours and weekend calls, needing immediate response, please call 1-800-554-5738.
ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH COVID-19 WEBSITE
Watch Friday’s August 7, 2020 Arkansas COVID-19 News Conference
Boozman highlighted efforts of Arkansas community organizations like the Rogers-based Sheep Dog Impact Assistance and the Mountain Home chapter of the Disabled American Veterans (DAV) that have built effective outreach programs and are making a difference in the lives of veterans.
“It makes sense that we harness the ideas and successes of community advocates into sound policy,” Boozman said.
The VA estimates that around 20 veterans commit suicide each day. That number has unfortunately remained roughly unchanged despite the drastic increase in funding. Over the last ten years, Congress more than tripled the VA’s funding for suicide prevention efforts to $222 million.
Only six of those 20 veterans are receiving healthcare services at the VA. That’s why Boozman and Warner are empowering the VA to share information with veteran-serving non-profits and requiring it to develop a tool to monitor progress so that resources can be concentrated on successful programs.
The IMPROVE Well-being for Veterans Act was introduced in June 2019. Earlier this year, provisions of the Boozman-Warner legislation were included in the Commander John Scott Hannon Veterans Mental Health Care Improvement Act, which was unanimously approved by the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee. President Donald Trump is supportive of the solution outlined in the IMPROVE Well-being for Veterans Act and included the approach in the President’s Roadmap to Empower Veterans and End a National Tragedy of Suicide (PREVENTS) which was rolled out at the White House earlier this summer.
