ASA HUTCHINSON WHO IS GIVING HIS DAILY BRIEFING ABOUT THE CORONA VIRUS WE’RE GOING TO TAKE THAT LIVE FEED FOR YOU RIGHT NOW FROM LITTLE ROCK COMMENT ON THE STATE REVENUE REPORT, WHICH IS RELATED TO OUR ECONOMIC RECOVERY AND VITALITY AND OUR STATE AND IN MAY WE WERE UP 80 MILLION DOLLARS OVER THE REVISED FORECAST. AND YOUR TODAY. WE’RE UP 287 MILLION DOLLARS OVER THE REVISED FORECAST NOW, THAT MEANS WE LOWER THE REVENUE FORECAST. AND WE’RE EXCEEDING THAT PROJECTION WITH THE MONTH OF MAY. WE WERE THREE POINT FOUR PERCENT BELOW LAST YEAR IN STATE REVENUE, BUT THIS IS REALLY EXTRAORDINARILY GOOD COMPARED TO WHAT THE PROJECTIONS WERE. AND SO I’M DELIGHTED WITH THE INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX COLLECTIONS WITH THE FACT THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING BACK TO WORK. THE SALES TAX COLLECTION SHOWS THAT PEOPLE ARE GAINING CONFIDENCE IN OUR ECONOMY AGAIN, AND THIS IS GOOD NEWS FOR US AND I WAS PLEASED TO RECEIVE THAT REVENUE REPORT TODAY IN TERMS OF LAST NIGHT AND THE ONGOING PROTESTS THAT WE HAVE ACROSS THE STATE OF ARKANSAS AND ACROSS THE NATION. I MADE MY COMMENTS ON THAT YESTERDAY, BUT I DID OBSERVE LAST NIGHT AND WHILE IT WAS A PEACEFUL PROTEST THAT I APPRECIATE AND VALUE UP UNTIL ABOUT TEN O’CLOCK. THERE WAS THOSE THAT TURNED VIOLENT THERE WERE THOSE THAT TURNED TO DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY. AND THE ARKANSAS STATE POLICE LAST NIGHT ARRESTED FIVE AND THOSE WERE FIVE ARKANSAS RESIDENTS EXPECT THE ARKANSAS STATE POLICE WORKING WITH LITTLE ROCK POLICE DEPARTMENT TO BE OUT AGAIN THIS EVENING AND I EXPECT THAT IF THAT CONDUCT CONTINUES AND DESTRUCTION OF PROPERTY OR VIOLENT ACTIVITIES THAT THEY WILL BE PREPARED TO. TAKE A REST AS NECESSARY IN TERMS OF THE COVID-19 CASES YESTERDAY. WE HAD SEVEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE CASES. SINCE YESTERDAY WE HAVE AN ADDITIONAL THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE CASES HERE IN ARKANSAS, WHICH IS THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF COMMUNITY CASES THAT WE’VE SEEN IN A ONE-DAY SPAN OF TIME THAT BRINGS US TO IN TERMS OF OUR HOSPITALIZATIONS. WE ARE AT 121 YESTERDAY. WE HAVE AN ADDITIONAL 11 THAT ARE HOSPITALIZED THAT BRINGS US TO 132. IN TERMS OF THOSE THAT HAVE SUCCUMBED TO COVID-19. WE HAD 133 YESTERDAY. WE HAVE ADDITIONAL THREE ARKANSANS THAT HAVE DIED THAT BRINGS US TO 136 THE THIS IS THE RESULT AND I’M TALKING ABOUT THE NUMBER OF CASES THAT WE REFLECTED THAT’S REALLY BASED UPON TESTING THAT WE’VE DONE IN ARKANSAS OF YESTERDAY OF 3807 TEST ANOTHER VERY HIGH NUMBER OF ASKED 713 OF THOSE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SO THEY CONTINUE TO INCREASE THEIR COVERAGE AND THEY’RE TESTING IN TERMS OF POSITIVITY RATE. THAT’S ANOTHER GOOD SIGN. WE HAD A FOUR POINT FOUR PERCENT POSITIVITY RATE YESTERDAY BASED UPON THE 3807 TESTS THAT WERE CONDUCTED AND IF WE GO TO THE SLIDES, LET’S LOOK FIRST AT THE NUMBER OF NEW CASES. YOU CAN SEE THAT THIS IS A ANOTHER SPIKE THAT WE HAVE AND IT’S ALL ORANGE. SO IT’S COMMUNITY CASES YOU GO TO THE NEXT ONE. YOU’LL SEE THE ROLLING AVERAGE THAT WE CONTINUE TO TREND UPWARD IN THE NUMBER OF CASES. THAT IS THE TRAJECTORY THAT WERE ON RIGHT NOW AND THEN IF YOU LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF CURRENTLY HOSPITALIZED AGAIN, WE ARE NOW AT THE HIGHEST POINT OF HOSPITALIZATIONS IN SAUL AND THAT’S UNDERSTANDABLE WITH THE ADDITIONAL CASES THAT WE HAVE AND THEN PAYNE TERMS OF TESTING HERE AGAIN IS THE GOOD NEWS WITH THE 10% STANDARD THAT CDC IS SET BUT YOU LOOK AT US THE LAST 24 HOURS. IT’S LESS THAN 5% AND IT’S BEEN CONSISTENTLY BELOW 10% SINCE WE’VE INCREASED OUR TESTING SUCH A HIGH LEVEL AND THEN YOU’LL SEE THE CUMULATIVE TOTAL WHICH LOOKS FUNNY BECAUSE IT’S FAIRLY BLANK BECAUSE WE’RE JUST THE FIRST PART OF JUNE BUT IT REFLECTS. 807 AND I WANTED TO INDICATE TO YOU WHAT OUR GOAL FOR TESTING WILL BE IN THE MONTH OF JUNE AS YOU KNOW, WE’RE SETTING A GOAL TO TEST EVERY NURSING HOME RESIDENT AND STAFF PERSON. WE’RE STARTING THAT PROCESS AND THAT’S AN OBJECTIVE THAT WE WANT TO ACCOMPLISH THAT ALONE. I BELIEVE IT’S 50,000 OR SO TEST AS A RESULT OF THAT BUT WITH THE LEVEL OF TESTING THAT WE’RE DOING AND THE GOAL THAT WE HAVE WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY DOUBLE OUR FROM LAST MONTH SO MET WITH 60,000 TEST OUR GOAL. IT’S IN IT’S A GOAL. IT DOESN’T MEAN WE’RE ALL WE’RE WE CAN MAKE IT BUT WE’RE SETTING THE GOAL OF A HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND TESTS FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE AND THEN IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, AND I’M DR. ROMERO WILL BE SPEAKING MORE ABOUT THIS. BUT YESTERDAY WE HAD A GOOD MEETING WITH OUR LATINO LEADERS IN COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES IN NORTHWEST ARKANSAS WHERE WE STILL SEE I THINK IT WAS 90% OF THE NEW CASES IN BENTON COUNTY HAD SPANISH SURNAMES, SO WE WANTED TO MEET WITH THEM. THEY MADE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS TO US. AND ONE OF THEM WAS TO REALLY BEEF UP OUR COVID-19 LATIN NEXT STAKEHOLDER GROUP. AND SO WE HAVE 28 MEMBERS ON THAT GROUP THAT REPRESENT THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY AND DR. ROMERO WILL BE ASIAN THAT AND SPEAK TO THAT AS WELL AND THE FINAL SLIDE THAT WE HAVE IS A PROTEST THAT YOU SEE IN BENTON COUNTY WHERE I PRACTICE LAW FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS RIGHT THERE ON THE SQUARE AND YOU CAN SEE THE HUGE CROWD AND THE QUESTION I ASK IS HOW DOES THIS IMPACT COVID-19? AND OBVIOUSLY THERE’S A CROWD THERE. THERE’S NOT SOCIAL DISTANCING, BUT IF YOU LOOK THE PARTICIPANTS THE VAST MAJORITY OF THEM ALL HAVE MASKS ON AND SO THIS IS AN INDICATION THAT THEY ARE TAKING THIS SERIOUSLY IN BENTON COUNTY NORTHWEST ARKANSAS. IT’S GOT THEIR ATTENTION. THEY’RE WEARING MASKS AND THIS DOES SET AN EXAMPLE AS TO HOW WE SHOULD TAKE THE SPREAD OF COVID-19 VERY SERIOUSLY WITH THAT. LET ME TURN IT OVER DR. SMITH