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What physicians are saying by Lara Farrar | Today at 3:26 a.m. "Patients will get sicker, faster. They will come in three or four days after an exposure instead of seven or eight. Oftentimes, they will decline more quickly. With the first variants, often most people took a couple of weeks before their symptoms really hit their height." -- Dr. Dirk Haselow, Baptist Health associate medical director of infection prevention/epidemiologist "Unless we are able to greatly increase the number of people who are vaccinated in Arkansas, we will see a surge in hospitalizations and deaths." -- Dr. Jennif...

Variants of concern have emerged in Brazil, the United Kingdom and South Africa. The delta variant was identified in India in December 2020 and was first detected in the U.S. in March, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It was first detected in Arkansas at the beginning of May, according to the state Health Department, which conducts genetic sequencing of samples of the virus on a routine basis to determine which variants are making inroads. The sequencing of the covid-19 positive samples can take from about a week to nearly a month, depending on where the sampl...