Dr. Cam Patterson said Arkansas will be better prepared for a pandemic in the future. | Pixabay
Dr. Cam Patterson said Arkansas will be better prepared for a pandemic in the future. | Pixabay
University of Arkansas Chancellor of Medical Sciences Dr. Cam Patterson discussed in an interview how COVID-19 has affected Arkansas.
During the interview, Patterson spoke on the importance of education, frontline workers, having a reliable source of information and other things to help Arkansas better prepare for COVID-19.
“There is a lot of our playbook that we have run over the past 365 days that we would run again,” Patterson said in the video. “Our team at UAMS and frankly, the whole healthcare system across the state really coalesced around solving this problem.”
He said that when another pandemic arrives, Arkansas will be better prepared.
“If I think about what we would do differently, how we would prepare for the next time this comes up, we didn’t have the playbook on the shelves,” Patterson said. “We had to put together the plays as we went along, and I know that in preparation for the next pandemic that we have – and inevitably we will have one – we will be better prepared.”
According to the Arkansas Department of Public Health, the state has had a total of 258,383 confirmed cases of the coronavirus. Out of those cases, 252,393 recovered. About 694,124 Arkansas residents have received at least their first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.
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