REASON WE’RE DOING THIS REMOTELY TODAY. AND LET ME GO THROUGH THE CASES THE LAST 24 HOURS. WE’VE HAD 628. NEW CASES AS A RESULT OF OUR PCP TEST AND THAT IS CONFIRMED CASES AND THEN WE HAD 216 PROBABLE CASES. THAT GIVES US A TOTAL O EIGHT HUNDRED AND FORTY PROBABLE AND CONFIRMED CASES IN ADDITION THE LAST 24 HOURS. WE’VE HAD AN ADDITIONAL IS 637. AND WE’VE HAD AN ADDITIONAL 14 DAYS. THAT BRINGS US TO 1576 DEATHS AS A RESULT OF COVID-19. WHENEVER YOU LOOK AT OUR CUMULATIVE TEST, WE HAVE REACHED THE 100,000 MARK IN TERMS OF INDIVIDUAL ARKANSANS THAT HAVE BEEN IMPACTED AND CONTRACTED COVID-19. AND THAT IS A MILESTONE. I KNOW THAT EVERYONE WILL NOTE AS BEING A REMARKABLE LARGE NUMBER AND I DID WANT TO NOTE THAT. THE 100,000 MARK REGRETTABLY TODAY WE HAVE WE’RE DOWN A LITTLE BIT IN OUR ACTIVE CASES 7159. AND WE HAVE OUR TESTING WAS. PCR TEST WAS 5439. AND I AR ANTIGEN TEST WAS 2429 SO YOU CAN SEE THE ANTIGEN TEST KICK BACK UP AS WE START PROCEEDING THROUGH THE WEEK. THEY’RE DOWN O THE WEEKEND. THE CUMULATIVE POSITIVITY RATE IS SEVEN POINT SIX PERCENT AND THE ANTIGEN POSITIVITY WAS 14.9% NOT ANY SURPRISES THERE. I’LL HAVE MORE TO SAY ABOUT THAT POSITIVITY RATE IF WE CAN GO TO THE RAFTS YOU CAN SEE THE FIRST ONE IN THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THIS AT LEAST WEEKLY NOW WE CAN GO THROUGH AND PUT IT IN PERSPECTIVE AND THEY’LL BE SOME MORE INFORMATIVE INFORMATION BECAUSE THIS GOES BACK TO JULY 1 YOU CAN SEE THE RED IS THE COMMUNITY CASES THE LIGHTER COLORS OF CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES. AND THEN IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT ONE, YOU SEE THE SEVEN-DAY ROLLING AVERAGE OF NEW CONFIRMED CASES. THOSE ARE THE PCR CASES IN ARKANSAS AND YOU CAN SEE THAT WE WERE DOWN A LITTLE BIT WE UP TICKED HERE AND THE SEVEN-DAY ROLLING AVERAGE AND THEN IF YOU GO ON TO THE NEXT ONE, THIS IS ONE THAT I THINK I LIKE TO PAY ATTENTION TO BECAUSE IT PUTS IT IN WEEK IF YOU GO BACK TO TO THE PREVIOUS ONE QUICKLY YOU CAN THE PATTERN THAT IS DEVELOPING WEEK BY WEEK. WE WILL HAVE TOWARD THE END OF THE WEEK THE HIGH NUMBER OF CASES THAT HAVE TRENDED OVER A THOUSAND ON WEDNESDAY OR A THURSDAY AND THEN THEY GO DOWN OVER THE WEEKEND MONDAY AND TUESDAY AND THEN THEY START KICKING UP. WELL HERE WE GOT TUESDAY THAT MOVED UP A LITTLE BIT HIGHER THAN IT DID LAST TUESDAY, BUT YOU CAN SEE THE PATTERN THROUGH THE WEEK AND SO THE NEXT ONE IT MEASURES. BYE WEEK, WHICH IS A GOOD WAY TO LOOK AT IT, AND YOU CAN SEE WEEK BY WEEK. WE’VE ALMOST BEEN FLAT CONSISTENT FOR THE LAST FOUR WEEKS ONE DID -- BUT IF YOU AVERAGE IT OUT THAT’S THAT’S PRETTY CLOSE. LAST WEEK WAS UP JUST A HAIR OVER THE PREVIOUS WEEK, BUT THAT PUTS IT IN PERSPECTIVE AND THOSE FOUR WEEKS WERE A LITTLE BIT LOWER THAN WHAT WE WERE ABOUT 10 WEEKS AGO. GO NEXT ONE. HOSPITALIZATIONS IS A CONCERN TO US YOU C SEE THAT WE HAVE 637 HOSPITALIZED AND TALKING WITH OUR DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND TALK OF SOME OF THE HOSPITAL OFFICIALS. THEY DESCRIBE IT AS TIGHT, BUT THEY HAVE SUCH A GOOD WORKING RELATIONSHIP AMONG THEM THAT THEY CAN MOVE RESOURCES AND CONTINUE TO DO THEIR OTHER NECESSARY SURGERIES, BUT WE’ ALL WORRIED ABOUT THE WINTER. FACT THAT OUR IF O FLU SEASON OR OTHER HOSPITALIZATIONS GOES UP ITS HARD TO MANAGE ALL OF IT TOGETHER AND SO IT’S NOT JUST COVID THAT IS TAKING ON A HOSPITAL SPACE, BUT IT’S ALL THE OTHER ISSUES OF LIFE THAT TAKE HOSPITAL SPACE AS WELL. AND SO THAT REASON WE NEED TO REALLY WORK HARD IN OUR FLU SEASON TO CONTROL THAT AND HOPEFULLY TO GET THE HOSPITALIZATIONS DOWN EVEN THOUGH EVERYONE IS PREPARED REALISTIC THAT THOSE HOSPITALIZATIONS VERY WE’LL GO UP A LITTLE BIT MORE FROM WHERE THEY ARE NOW AND THEN IF YOU LOOK ON THE NUMBER OF ACTIVE CASES THAT IS DOWN, WHICH MEANS MORE PEOPLE HAVE RECOVERED THEM WERE ADDED TO THE LIST THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS ANYWAY, AND THEN THE SEVEN-DAY ROLLING AVERAGE OF BOTH CONFIRMED AND PROBABLE CASES IN ARKANSAS A LITTLE BIT FLAT OVER THE LAST FEW DAYS. AND LET’S KEEP GOING HERE. THIS JUST TO REMIND YOU OF OUR PUBLIC HEALTH REGIONS BECAUSE I WANT TO ILLUSTRATE A POINT HERE IN A MOMENT. YOU CAN SEE THE NORTHEAST THE FIVE DIFFERENT PUBLIC HEALTH REGIONS AND THEN IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT ONE, YOU WILL SEE TH ROLLING AVERAGE SEVEN A ROLLING BY PUBLIC HEALTH REGION AND YOU CAN SEE FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT YOU HAVE IN BLUE THE NORTHEAST REGION OF THE STATE HAS MOVED PAST THE NORTHWEST REGION OF THE STATE, WHICH IS IN THE ORANGE. AND SO THAT IS A SIGNIFICANT REMINDER THAT THE LARGEST INCREASE IN CASES RIGHT NOW. THAT BLUE LINE IS CONSISTENTLY MOVING UP AND IT’S THE TOP REGION OF THE STATE RIGHT NOW G CAUTIONARY NOTE THAT WE TO WORK HARD TO BRING THAT UNDER CONTROL AND THEN IF YOU LOOK AT HOLD ON A SECOND, PLEASE. THE YELLOW IS THE CENTRAL REGION. IT IS REALLY HELD ITS OWN MOVE DOWN A LITTLE BIT IN RECENT DAYS THE SOUTHEAST SOUTHWEST ARE THE LOWEST REGIONS OF THE STATE. SO THAT’S INFORMATIVE EVERYBODY DEPENDING UPON THE REGION THAT YOU’RE IN AND AND THEN THE NEXT ONE. IF WE GO TO IT THIS BREAKS DOWN THE GROWTH RATE OF CASES BY PUBLIC HEALTH REGEN WHICH ILLUSTRATES THE SAME POINT AND DIFFERENT WAY NORTHEAST REGION IS OVER WEEK-TO-WEEK GREW BY EIGHT POINT THREE PERCENT FOLLOWED BY CENTRAL 5.4 AND SOUTHWEST AT FIVE POINT TWO AGAIN A REMINDER WE TO DO. NEXT IS THE SAME BY AGE CATEGORY AND SO 65 PLUS WAS GROWING AT THE 7.5 PERCENT RATE GROUP 5.5. IT’S EERILY 17 AND 0 24 YOU COMBINE THOSE TWO THAT’S 8.7 UNDER AGE 24, WHICH WOULD ACTUALLY IF YOU COMBINE THOSE WILL BE HIGHER THAN THE 65 PLUS. AND TERMS OF GROWTH RATES AND THEN THE SEVEN-DAY ROLLING AVERAGE OF PERCENT POSITIVE. WE ALWAYS WANT TO STAY UNDER 10% WHICH WE HAVE CONSISTENTLY BEEN BELOW 1 BUT IT’S A CONCERN WHENEVER YOU SEE WE WERE DOWN FOUR WEEKS ACTUALLY AT A FAIRLY CONSISTENT LOW 6% POSITIVITY RATE. IT IS EDGED UP SOME AND THAT MEANS THAT THE MORE PEOPLE ARE TESTED A HIGHER PERCENT ARE BECOMING SEDATIVE WAS JUST SIMPLY MEANS THAT THERE’S MORE PEOPLE IN COMMUNITY THAT MIGHT HAVE CONTRACTED IT. SO WE WANT TO WORK ON THAT POSITIVITY, RIGHT? THE SEVEN-DAY ROLLING AVERAGE OF PERCENT POSITIVE ANTIGEN TEST IS HIGHER AS YOU CAN SEE MORE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO FEEL LIKE THEY NEED IT. THEY GO IN THEY GET AN ANTIGEN TEST. THAT’S A HIGHER POSITIVITY RATE. THEN WE’RE COMING TO THE END HERE. THIS IS THE BY DATA RESULT. THE PERCENT POSITIVE P TEST SO THIS IS POSITIVITY JUST BY THE PCR TEST WHICH WE DESCRIBED BEFORE. AND THEN THIS IS REALLY AGAIN SHOWS EXACTLY THE GREAT WORK THAT OUR DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH IS DOING ALL OF OUR MEDICAL TEAM ACROSS THE STATE THAT IS CONSISTENTLY TESTING THOSE IN NEED. WE HAVE TESTED JUST AT THIS POINT IN THE MONTH ON AUGUST 19TH, AUGUST 20TH, EXCUSE ME, OCTOBER 20TH HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SEVEN THOUSAND AND THESE ARE PCR TEST ALONE. HE HAD THE ANTIGEN TEST IT EVEN GOES UP FROM THERE. THAT’S NEXT SLID IT’S THE ANTIGEN TEST. YOU CAN SEE HOW WELL WE’RE DOING ON THOSE. AND SO THAT GIVES YOU A PIC