COVID-19 cases in the community Sept. 22, 2021

Below are the number of COVID-19 cases, active cases, and deaths recorded on Wednesday, September 22, 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

5,347 cases (+23)

139 active cases (-1)

5,080 recoveries (+55)

126 deaths (+0)

42,771 tests performed

37,424 negative test results

25,664 vaccine doses administered (+75)

36.5% county population fully immunized

In the Southwest hospital region of the state, where Union County sits, 151 people were hospitalized due to COVID-19 Wednesday including 72 in intensive care units and 43 on ventilator support. Additionally, there were 375 pediatric COVID-19 cases active in the in the region Wednesday, out of a total of 6,442 pediatric cases identified in the region.

Arkansas

488,316 cases (+1,463)

91,647 pediatric cases (+447)

13,714 active cases (-511)

3,800 active pediatric cases (-113)

466,946 recoveries

7,528 deaths (+29)

4,881,287 tests performed

4,370,958 negative test results

967 hospitalized; 416 in ICUs; 256 on ventilator support

2,586,877 vaccine doses administered (+6,214)

1,316,186 Arkansans fully immunized (+3,727)

United States

42,512,327 cases

680,682 deaths

World

229,903,892 cases

4,715,485 deaths