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First presumptive case of coronavirus confirmed in Arkansas, governor says
THV11 ^ | Updated: 11:15 AM CDT March 11, 2020 | THV11 Digital

Posted on 03/11/2020 9:44:31 AM PDT by DCBryan1

First presumptive case of coronavirus confirmed in Arkansas, governor says Author: THV11 Digital Published: 10:47 AM CDT March 11, 2020 Updated: 11:15 AM CDT March 11, 2020

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — According to Gov. Asa Hutchinson, the first case presumptive COVID-19 case in Arkansas has been confirmed out of a Pine Bluff hospital.

Gov. Hutchinson announced the case in a press conference on Wednesday, March 11.

He said the case has been tested by the Arkansas Department of Health and will be sent to the CDC for further testing.

The patient has an out of state travel history, so it is likely they got the case through travel with another state.

Dr. Nate Smith, Secretary of the Arkansas Department of Health, said there is currently no evidence of spread in the Pine Bluff community or anywhere else in the state.

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KEYWORDS: arkansas; coronavirus; covid19; flu
Pine Bluff.....the armpit of Arkansas. Supposed traveler to Boston Medical conference. Had traveled recently.
1 posted on 03/11/2020 9:44:31 AM PDT by DCBryan1
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2 posted on 03/11/2020 9:50:08 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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Send the patient to a sanctuary state for quarantine.


3 posted on 03/11/2020 9:51:00 AM PDT by chopperk
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Send the patient to a sanctuary state for quarantine.

Nuevo Mexico just announced three presumptive positives -

New Mexico announces first 'presumptive positive' cases of coronavirus

So, we got that going for us...

4 posted on 03/11/2020 10:13:30 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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Shut the state down!


5 posted on 03/11/2020 10:13:43 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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If it is “presumptive” how can it be “confirmed” in the same sentence?


6 posted on 03/11/2020 10:17:30 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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Is it presumptive or it is confirmed? Can’t be both.


7 posted on 03/11/2020 10:23:38 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Pine Bluff...home of one of the US former bioweapons labs and location of the Agent Orange production facility. I would have placed a bet on the location of the first Coronavirus case in Arkansas at being Pine Bluff.
8 posted on 03/11/2020 10:35:13 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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Dunno. Health department said he was at the Biogen seminar with the others that have come down with it. (Traveled AND in close association with confirmed virus patients) He has all the symptoms and “ground glass” lungs Via CT. Supposedly negative for A&B. Awaiting confirmation with broken CDC kit. Patient in isolation at Pine Bluff Hospital. I’d say he has it.


9 posted on 03/11/2020 10:35:28 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)
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Yep...Pine Bluff Arsenal and NCTR. They finished up their VX and mustard gas incineration a few years ago.


10 posted on 03/11/2020 10:36:28 AM PDT by DCBryan1 (Quit calling them liberals, progs, socialists, or democrats. Call them what they are: COMMUNISTS!!!!)
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There is no way Hunter can leave CA now and go there.


11 posted on 03/11/2020 10:48:39 AM PDT by pas
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The Wuhan Virus, that’s Chinese for the Mexican version Corona, will fade out as fast as it came. Unfortunately the damage done by the media driven fake panic will remain.


12 posted on 03/11/2020 10:50:28 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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Media version of grammar.


13 posted on 03/11/2020 10:52:53 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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Great. Now everyone and their cousin will have it.


14 posted on 03/11/2020 10:54:19 AM PDT by okkev68
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I have a close friend that checked in the Biogen employees at BNA airport that caught the virus in Boston and brought it back to Tennessee. She is fine but those at BNA are frightened about the R0 characteristics of this virus.
15 posted on 03/11/2020 11:13:52 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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Pine Bluff home to a major military bio-weapons facility.


16 posted on 03/11/2020 12:16:42 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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Naaaah.
No one even remembers most of the other media induced anti Trump hysterics since Trump came to power. There have been so many of them.
17 posted on 03/11/2020 3:36:19 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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