375 active pediatric COVID cases in region

The Arkansas Department of Health had not updated its COVID-19 dashboard with state- and county-level data on the number of cases, active cases, recoveries, deaths and tests performed by press time Thursday.

However, the ADH did expand its dashboard to include information about pediatric COVID-19 cases at both the state and regional level. Since the pandemic began, 76,678 COVID-19 cases have been identified in children from infancy to 18 years old, including 6,016 cases that were active Thursday. Of those, 726 had been hospitalized and 99 had been admitted to an intensive care unit.

In the Southwest hospital region of the state, where Union County sits, 6,442 COVID-19 cases had been identified in children, including 375 that were active Thursday.

Some state and local COVID-19 data points were available by press time Thursday.

Union County

23,135 vaccine doses administered (+139)

31.9% count population fully immunized

Southwest hospital region

224 hospitalized; 82 in ICUs; 55 on ventilator support

Arkansas

443,564 cases (+2,318)

23,575 active cases (-12)

6,806 deaths (+32)

1,368 hospitalized; 534 in ICUs; 354 on ventilator support

2,647,706 vaccine doses administered (+31,544)

1,190,394 Arkansans fully immunized (+11,919)