Already at record levels, the number of covid-19 patients in Arkansas hospitals and on ventilators continued growing on Tuesday as the state's count of cases rose by 2,620.
Hindsight is 20/20, even in 2021. Looking back on the state bill that forbids mask mandates in public buildings passed by the Arkansas Legislature and signed by the governor when the pandemic seemed to be winding down who could have known how much trouble it would cause?
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The Arkansas Legislature on Friday ended its three-day special session without making the change sought by Gov. Asa Hutchinson, to allow public school districts to require children under age 12 to wear masks in hopes of containing the spread of the coronavirus.