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Northern Arkansas counties reporting an increase in COVID-19 cases
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MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark. (KY3) – The Facilities for Illness Management positioned Baxter County within the excessive class for his or her COVID-19 group degree.
Baxter County is certainly one of simply three counties in Arkansas within the excessive class, and solely 12% of the counties in the US are in that class.
Based on the New York Occasions, Baxter County has seen a forty five% enhance in lively instances over the past 14 days, the consequences of that are being felt at Baxter Regional Medical Middle.
In Arkansas, the state’s depend of instances rose Wednesday by 1,332, the second day by day enhance in a row that topped 1,000 and the third-largest one-day spike since February.
“You’re listening to extra of this lengthy COVID and other people having these signs that they’re discovering could also be linked to COVID,” mentioned Stephanie Free, BRMC An infection Prevention coordinator. “We’re seeing extra individuals now who’ve COVID twice or perhaps a third time.”
Surrounding counties, Marion and Stone, are seeing average transmission charges, based on the CDC. The rest of the Ozarks continues to be within the low transmission class.
“Our lively COVID instances have been within the 20′s, 40′s, sometime even within the teenagers. As of immediately, although, we’re at 162,” mentioned Free. “Lots of people we’ve got talked to with the instances appear to have traveled. So journey appears to be a typical denominator amongst a number of of them.”
Baxter Regional says its COVID-19 wing is on standby within the case of overflow however has not been wanted in a number of months, primarily as a result of restricted severity of current cases.
On Wednesday, the Arkansas Division of Well being reported that the variety of sufferers hospitalized with the coronavirus had risen by 30 to 241, the best degree since March 13.
“The excellent news there may be plenty of these sufferers are close to as sick as what we’ve seen in earlier surges,” mentioned Free. “So plenty of them are in a position to go residence, they’re not on the vent, we don’t have hospitalizations which might be so long as what we’ve seen previously.”
Click on right here to see a county-by-county breakdown of present transmission charges.
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Purdue football coach Barry Odom makes first public appearance
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WEST LAFAYETTE − Purdue football continues to stockpile Arkansas linebackers.
After snagging Razorback Alex Sanford out of the transfer portal, the Boilermakers picked up a commitment from Carson Dean.
Dean was a redshirt freshman for Arkansas this season and played in two games.
Dean, from Frisco, Texas, was a three star prospect by 247Sports out of Hebron High who had 17 offers, including Purdue.
In high school, Dean was an all-district outside linebacker after compiling 85 tackles, including 21 for loss as a senior in 2022.
At the time of his commitment, Barry Odom was Arkansas’ defensive coordinator and Mike Scherer, recently hired as Purdue’s defensive coordinator, was the Arkansas linebackers coach.
Scherer recruited Dean to Arkansas.
Odom’s staff, in need of linebackers after Kydran Jenkins graduated and Yanni Karlaftis transferred to Northwestern.
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Purdue is starting to pick up steam on the transfer portal market as former Arkansas linebacker Alex Sanford announced his commitment to the Boilermakers following an official visit to West Lafayette this weekend.
Sanford becomes Purdue’s second transfer portal pickup of the cycle and second from Arkansas, following quarterback Malachi Singleton, who announced his commitment to the Boilermakers earlier this week.
The redshirt freshman linebacker had committed to Arkansas to play for Barry Odom and Mike Scherer when the two were coaching in Fayetteville. Two years later he now follows the Boilermakers’ new head coach and defensive coordinator to West Lafayette at a position of need.
Purdue had a thin linebacker corps this season, which saw Kydran Jenkins and Yanni Karlaftis depart this off-season. Sanford now joins Hudson Miller, Winston Berglund and Owen Davis as players with experience at the linebacker position for the Boilermakers heading into 2025.
Sanford has had a minimal role on defense during his career, playing just nine snaps, but he has carved out a consistent role on special teams. Sanford had the third most special teams snaps of any Razorback in 2024, and 328 across his two seasons, serving on the kick return, kick coverage, punt return and punt coverage units, holding a 65.2 Pro Football Focus grade in that regard.
Sanford will have two years of eligibility remaining with the Boilermakers.
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