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‘All of a Sudden It Blows Up’: Arkansas’ COVID Problem Is Just Getting Started

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There are few states whose experience of the coronavirus pandemic has shifted more radically in recent weeks than Arkansas.

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For months, New Yorkers saw their hospitals flood with COVID-19 patients and bodies pile up in refrigerated overflow morgue trucks. Meanwhile, other parts of the country never even implemented a statewide lockdown.

For those hoping a slew of Southern and rural states might have avoided the worst of the pandemic entirely,...

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