COVID-19 cases in the community Sept. 2, 2021

Below are the number of COVID-19 cases, active cases, and deaths recorded on Thursday, September 2, 2021 in Union County, Arkansas, the United States and the world. Additionally, local and state testing, recovery, hospitalization and vaccine information is provided.

The data was gathered from the Arkansas Department of Health for Union County and Arkansas, and from Johns Hopkins University for the U.S. and world.

Union County

4,968 cases (+40)

245 active cases (+21)

4,601 recoveries (+18)

120 deaths (+1)

40,644 tests performed

35,676 negative test results

24,017 vaccine doses administered (+89)

33.5% county population fully immunized

In the Southwest hospital region of the state, where Union County sits, 209 people were hospitalized due to COVID-19 Thursday including 85 in intensive care units and 57 on ventilator support. Additionally, there were 375 pediatric COVID-19 cases active in the in the region Thursday, out of a total of 6,442 pediatric cases identified in the region.

Arkansas

458,234 cases (+2,453)

82,460 pediatric cases (+910)

23,077 active cases (+263)

7,344 active pediatric cases (+278)

428,040 recoveries (+2,156)

7,003 deaths (+34)

4,588,049 tests performed

4,109,971 negative test results

1,290 hospitalized; 534 in ICUs; 355 on ventilator support

2,720,870 vaccine doses administered (+11,723)

1,232,606 Arkansans fully immunized (+6,600)

United States

39,480,609 cases

642,879 deaths

World

218,823,527 cases

4,548,299 deaths