Arkansas Reports 33 New Covid-19 Patients Placed on Ventilators in Single Day

Arkansas hospitals positioned 33 new covid-19 sufferers on ventilators Tuesday, based on the state’s division of well being, bringing the entire to 205 sufferers struggling for all times on the machines. Sadly, that’s the very best variety of sufferers on ventilators since January, based on the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, and it’s due largely to the state’s desperately low vaccination charges.

The variety of covid-19 sufferers at the moment hospitalized in Arkansas is 1,025, one other excessive that hasn’t been seen since January of this yr. The state recorded 2,052 new circumstances on Tuesday, with 10 new deaths from the illness.

Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, tweeted in regards to the miserable milestones on Tuesday, urging residents to get vaccinated.

“Today our hospitalizations crossed the 1,000 mark. I will meet with my COVID Task Force tomorrow morning to discuss ways to increase hospital capacity. Vaccines are the best antidote for our increasing numbers; the best antidote for fear is counsel from a trustworthy advisor,” Hutchinson tweeted.

Arkansas handed a legislation earlier this yr that forbids any native authorities from introducing a masks mandate to fight the unfold of covid-19, a legislation that Hutchinson defended on CNN only a few days ago. The legislation goes into impact this week, which looks like significantly unhealthy timing. Hutchinson instructed CNN that vaccine mandates can be an “imposition on freedom.”

Depressingly, Hutchinson was booed on Monday after making an attempt to dispel a few of the myths across the covid-19 vaccines, together with the false perception that it causes infertility in ladies.

Just 36.25% of Arkansas residents are absolutely vaccinated, based on Johns Hopkins University, the fourth worst within the nation.

Vaccine resistance is difficult, however political affiliation has been a dependable technique to measure vaccine hesitancy throughout this horrifying pandemic. Followers of former president Donald Trump are particularly resistant to getting vaccinated in opposition to covid-19, regardless that Trump acquired his vaccination in secret whereas nonetheless in workplace.

Arkansas went for Trump in the course of the 2020 presidential election 62% to Biden’s 34%.