Twin Lakes/White River Watershed Update:  Stone, Baxter, Independence, Sharp, Fulton, Izard Counties -- counties in the service area of Baxter Regional Hometown Clinics, in north central Arkansas.

Total population:  133,670        COVID cases:  741       COVID deaths:  8

Stone: 12,446

24 hour new cases:  0 case

14 day case count:  22/59

Recovered:  45/59;  

Active cases 13

Trend:  35% of our cases for 4 months in last 2 weeks

Deaths:  1 death, none last 3 weeks.

Observations:  Doing well, but need to keep our guard up

Baxter:  41,219

24 hours:  4 cases

Recovered:  52/68;

Active Cases:  16

14 days:  20/68 

Trend:  30% of cases for 4 months in last 2 weeks

Deaths:  0 deaths

Observations:  0 deaths 40,000 people 12,000 seniors is fantastic;  6 cases last 7 days, 11 prior week

Independence:  37,264

24 hours:  20 cases

Recovered 222/433

Active cases:  210

14 days:    303/433 

Trend:  Major spike ongoing;  70% of cases for 4 months in last 2 weeks

Deaths:  1 deaths, last 4 days

Observations:  averaging over 20 cases a day for last 2 week, up from 14 prior 2 weeks.

Izard:  13,559

24 hours:  0 (48 hours)

Recovered:  34/45;

Active cases: 10 

14 days: cases 16/45 total for 4 months, last 2 weeks.

Trend:  35% of total pandemic cases in last two weeks, nearly double current week over prior week.

Deaths:  1 total, no deaths in 2 months.

Observations:  hopefully, beginning to improve with only 2 cases in last five days.

Sharp:  17,043

24 hours:  0

Recovered:  85/106

Active cases:  16

14 days: cases 26/106 total for 4 months, last 2 weeks.

Trend:  25% of total pandemic cases in last two weeks.

Deaths:  5 total,  one death 4-6 weeks/ago, none since July 10 all in NH.

Observations:   

Fulton:  12,139

24 hours:  1

Recovered:  25/30

Active cases:  5

14 days: cases  9/30 cases total for 4 months, last 2 weeks.

Trend:  30% of total pandemic cases in last two weeks, double last week over previous week.

Deaths:  0

Observations:  30% of cases last 2 weeks, but 20% of total cases since pandemic onset last 7 days

463/741 recovered;  270 active cases, 78% in Independence Cty.  All other counties less than 20 active cases.

Overall, last 24 hours really stable, we’ve increased about 100 cases nearly all in Independence Cty, with sadly, their first death. I apologize, but I can’t seem to get information out of Independence County regarding ICU or hospital bed availability.  Six cases in region over last 24 hours;  We’re seeing a significant uptick in cases in the region as testing has increased 5-10 fold over last 2 months.  Our rates per 100,000 population is about 700 cases, with 648 cases out of our entire region of 133,670, with four hospitals.

Trends:  

Bed availability:  over 35%

ICU availability:  over 30%

Ventilator availability:  over 90%

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