Patti Smith said : “I’m really proud of them, incredibly,”

mlive Thursday, September 24, 2020 6:31:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith added : "Without a reasonable anticipation of harm, I cannot justify continuing to curtail their economic activity. As the Governor noted, we are already at least halfway into phase 2 (and into phase 3 for some activities), so this is not a very radicle [sic] move,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, July 29, 2020 12:32:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith wrote : "Transmission is increasing, but the available evidence suggests it is not related to the activities under restrictions we are lifting in phase 2," "Basically, if we did not see related transmission when we went from closed to 33% capacity, I don't have reason to anticipate that we will have substantial levels of related transmission when we go from 33% to 66%"

arkansasonline Wednesday, July 29, 2020 12:32:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "So we really have not had large hot spots with lots of bars and gyms, for example," "So we will try to implement those recommendations in an Arkansas specific fashion when we can, but not everything may exactly fit, because they're designed really for all 50 states"

arkansasonline Saturday, July 18, 2020 12:59:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "If this gets the data more quickly to where it's actionable, then I have no objection to it," "But it is important that all those who need to be looking at those data have access to it and can have input on it"

arkansasonline Thursday, July 16, 2020 12:42:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "What that tells us is those are the chances that if you're out and about in your community, what are the chances that you're going to encounter someone who has an active case,"

arkansasonline Friday, July 10, 2020 12:28:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "They had advertised for a karaoke night, which seemed a particularly bad idea in a packed venue when there's already potential cases connected to that,"

arkansasonline Thursday, July 9, 2020 10:25:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Camp Ozark shared the information that they had on out-of-state campers and a counselor. They took action. They initially sent campers home and some counselors home, and then, as they had additional cases, they made the decision on their own to go ahead and close down for now,"

wrcbtv Thursday, July 9, 2020 4:21:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "This is pretty widespread in the central region, and so this is going to take a collective action in order to turn this around," "There's not the same ability to focus our efforts in one area and expect it to come down quickly"

arkansasonline Tuesday, July 7, 2020 1:17:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We are not behind in terms of making that initial contact," "Sometimes it does take us a little while to get a hold of that person, but that's to be expected"

arkansasonline Tuesday, July 7, 2020 1:17:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "They had advertised for a karaoke night, which seemed a particularly bad idea in a packed venue when there's already potential cases connected to that,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, July 7, 2020 12:45:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Things you might've gotten away with over Memorial Day weekend are going to be riskier this weekend,"

arkansasonline Monday, July 6, 2020 12:54:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith says : "Outside activities, you are definitely safer than inside activities,"

npr Friday, July 3, 2020 4:22:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We want to make sure that those people get tested, but we also want to make sure the hospitals are able to use their resources to take care of the sick patients that they have that are under their care,"

arkansasonline Friday, July 3, 2020 12:43:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said ( about Arkansas Department ) : “My biggest concern with the Fourth of July is that in Arkansas, we have more than three times as many active cases now as we did in Memorial Day weekend,”

thehill Thursday, July 2, 2020 1:35:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : “The same activities are going to be associated with a higher risk of acquiring COVID-19 so we need to be more vigilant this time than we were Memorial Day,”

thehill Thursday, July 2, 2020 1:35:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : “Although we haven’t had an explosive increase in cases we’re going to have to be very vigilant in this central part of the state because that’s our most densely populated portion of the state,”

arkansasonline Monday, June 29, 2020 11:36:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "If it's shortly after the outbreak has resolved, it could be that there was someone who initially tested negative but was actually incubating infection and then later goes on to develop infection," "But then we also have staff who are coming and going, and all the same things that caused the introduction in the first place"

arkansasonline Friday, June 26, 2020 12:49:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Early on the Governor had expressed reservations because their models, like many others at the time, had predicted very high numbers of hospitalized patients, ventilated patients and deaths,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, June 24, 2020 12:58:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith wrote : "My usual bias is toward the empiric and with COVID-19 even more so," "Over the last couple of days we have had a clear downward trend in new cases in [Northwest Arkansas] with a slight downward trend in other parts of our state. Since the new cases in NW are driving our current numbers, it is most likely that over the next few weeks we will see the number of new cases for the state decrease and the number of active cases begin to decline. On the other hand, anything can happen"

arkansasonline Wednesday, June 24, 2020 12:58:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "It's very concerning to see the way that this virus spreads, and it can spread very quickly and could result in a large number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths in our state," "But we also have learned how to protect ourselves and reduce the spread of covid-19"

arkansasonline Wednesday, June 24, 2020 12:47:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "If you get a high usage rate [of masks], whether or not you have a requirement, you are likely to have decreased transmission," "Requiring it and having a low rate of usage will give you higher rates of transmission"

arkansasonline Tuesday, June 23, 2020 4:20:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We are particularly concerned about infections, hospitalizations and deaths in some of our harder to reach communities where there may be barriers of language or culture, so we are looking at that very carefully. "

arkansasonline Sunday, June 14, 2020 12:00:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We've been seeing daily a high number of cases in Washington County, and a high proportion of them have been in the Latino community," "We're not seeing any departure from that pattern"

arkansasonline Friday, June 12, 2020 12:53:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "to help us to better understand the dynamics of transmission in the northwest part of the state, particularly in Washington and Benton counties, helping to understand this interplay between transmission in the home, in the community and in the workplace,"

arkansasonline Friday, June 12, 2020 12:53:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith noted : "went from being closed to being a third capacity," "If we were going to see a resurgence, that's when we would have expected to see it,"

arkansasonline Thursday, June 11, 2020 12:57:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "The concern was, is Atlanta going to be the next New Orleans," "Well, it wasn't, and that's a good thing"

arkansasonline Thursday, June 11, 2020 12:57:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "You can see this is not just two counties," "We've got activity going on throughout the state, and so all of us need to take those precautions"

arkansasonline Thursday, June 11, 2020 12:57:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Because we have had such an increase in the number of cases, it's not that surprising that hospitalizations would come next," "I won't be surprised if we have additional deaths, unfortunately"

arkansasonline Tuesday, June 9, 2020 1:37:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We're not in danger of exceeding our capacity, but we'll be checking with the hospitals that have received patients just to make sure that no individual hospital is being overtaxed,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, June 9, 2020 1:37:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Contact tracing is more challenging in a setting where people may be in a crowd or with a lot of people they don't know," "We will do our best with that if we start to see cases that are associated with protests"

arkansasonline Tuesday, June 9, 2020 1:37:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "This is characteristic of this sort of second wave that we're seeing," "Again, mostly from the northwest part of the state, tend to be younger individuals, and a relatively large proportion in the Latino community"

arkansasonline Saturday, June 6, 2020 10:56:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "This is characteristic of this sort of second wave that we're seeing," "Again, mostly from the northwest part of the state, tend to be younger individuals, and a relatively large proportion in the Latino community"

arkansasonline Saturday, June 6, 2020 12:48:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Our nursing home residents are very vulnerable, and that's why we've spent so much time focusing on them, trying to protect them,"

arkansasonline Thursday, June 4, 2020 1:07:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "That's one where we prioritize the contact tracing because we know that there may be several who were exposed all at once,"

arkansasonline Thursday, June 4, 2020 1:07:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "who did things on Memorial Day weekend that they maybe ought not to have done, that they're now starting to develop symptoms and get tested," "I don't know that, but this is about the time that we might expect to see Memorial Day phenomenon"

arkansasonline Thursday, June 4, 2020 1:07:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "If we at least do what we did last month, we should even exceed the 120,000,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, June 3, 2020 11:59:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We'll have to see what happens in central, but that one-day spike is really attributable to the nursing home,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, June 3, 2020 11:59:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "So we need to do even more testing in the Northwest,"

arkansasonline Monday, June 1, 2020 10:24:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We have had some cases that although they involve the community, there's been perhaps some acceleration with some workplaces, particularly those associated with the poultry industry,"

arkansasonline Sunday, May 31, 2020 4:39:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "What we have seen is that rather than having one covid-19 outbreak in Arkansas, we've had many outbreaks in different parts of the state effective at different times,"

arkansasonline Thursday, May 28, 2020 12:52:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "There is absolutely no disagreement with the approach that we've taken here," "Working for the governor has been one of the highlights of my career and made it very difficult to make this decision"

arkansasonline Wednesday, May 27, 2020 1:31:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Part of this may be accessibility of testing," "We have not had testing as easily available to everyone in the state. Now that we're testing in 79 of our local health units, there's much greater accessibility"

arkansasonline Wednesday, May 27, 2020 1:31:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We don't have information at this point whether they're related to poultry plants, but we do know there are communities that are being affected,"

arkansasonline Sunday, May 24, 2020 12:20:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We are using this information to focus our testing efforts,"

arkansasonline Sunday, May 24, 2020 12:20:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We'll continue to do those extra testing events wherever we see an increased number of cases,"

arkansasonline Sunday, May 24, 2020 12:20:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : “We need to look down and actually see what’s happening,” “Are these cases that were associated with activities that have been going on from the beginning or are these associated with newly reopened activities? That’s the critical question”

arkansasonline Friday, May 22, 2020 1:23:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : “We need to look down and actually see what’s happening,” “Are these cases that were associated with activities that have been going on from the beginning or are these associated with newly reopened activities? That’s the critical question”

arkansasonline Thursday, May 21, 2020 11:50:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith wrote : "To ensure the continuity of testing, the laboratory requires updates to critical infrastructure," "Additionally, the laboratory is planning for the autumn and the potential testing of both influenza and COVID-19 by utilizing new technology that can test both simultaneously"

arkansasonline Thursday, May 21, 2020 11:55:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Since we've pretty much tripled our testing rate, we are identifying a lot of cases, especially asymptomatic cases that we weren't picking up before this,"

ABCnews Wednesday, May 20, 2020 8:49:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "These activities don't appear to be driving our community cases at this point,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, May 20, 2020 11:24:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We are identifying a lot of cases, especially asymptomatic cases, that we weren't picking up before this,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, May 20, 2020 11:24:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "already have a plan for testing, and we just receive the results and help them to work through the contact tracing," "In other cases we do provide testing and whatever support is needed"

arkansasonline Wednesday, May 20, 2020 11:24:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Fortunately, our number of cases have come down since then, and hopefully we'll see those hospitalizations come down as well, but we'll be watching that very carefully,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, May 19, 2020 12:25:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We're going to need to adjust our behavior individually and not count on someone looking over our shoulder to tell us what we know we need to do to protect ourselves and others,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, May 19, 2020 12:25:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "When we developed each of these directives, we had in mind each particular group that was involved in these directives," "Obviously, a place of worship is different than a concert hall. There are some similarities but there are also some significant differences, especially with this event they're expecting people from a number of different states -- people who normally wouldn't come in contact with each another. So that really increases the risk of covid-19 transmission"

arkansasonline Friday, May 15, 2020 1:19:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "When we developed each of these directives, we had in mind each particular group that was involved in these directives," "Obviously, a place of worship is different than a concert hall. There are some similarities but there are also some significant differences, especially with this event they're expecting people from a number of different states, people who normally wouldn't come in contact with each another so that really increases the risk of covid-19 transmission"

arkansasonline Thursday, May 14, 2020 12:50:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith wrote : "On May 11, I personally advised you by phone through counsel that you should postpone your event, and of today's date, it is my understanding that you intend to violate the orders of the governor and the health directive by holding your event May 15," "By your actions, you are in violation of the Arkansas Public Health Code,"

arkansasonline Thursday, May 14, 2020 12:50:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith wrote : "It is the duty of every holder of an alcoholic beverage permit issued by the state of Arkansas to operate the business in a manner that is in the public interest and does not endanger the public health, welfare or safety,"

arkansasonline Thursday, May 14, 2020 12:50:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "That was a really great win for us,"

CBC Thursday, May 14, 2020 12:06:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "I think it's a really great situation. I think there's been so many different factors that have come together,"

CBC Thursday, May 14, 2020 12:06:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We've got the testing capacity," "What we need now is for people in the community ... to come forward to get tested"

arkansasonline Tuesday, May 12, 2020 11:41:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "I am concerned about this increase in the number of cases, the 100 in the community especially, but I'm even more concerned about the cases we don't know about and that's why it's so important that we increase testing," "We really need to know who's positive, who's negative, who's been exposed and who's not been exposed"

arkansasonline Tuesday, May 12, 2020 11:41:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith replied : "From a public health standpoint I am still not comfortable with that and would like the opportunity to talk after I have called the Tennessee health commissioner,"

arkansasonline Monday, May 11, 2020 12:07:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Louisiana has closed their casinos, and Mississippi is planning to this evening or tomorrow," "I am concerned about their people coming here if we stay open"

arkansasonline Monday, May 11, 2020 12:07:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "These are not new cases that occurred or were diagnosed in the last 24 hours. These actually had been tested by the CDC, and there was a few days' delay in getting those results,"

arkansasonline Sunday, May 10, 2020 12:49:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith says : “I cried right through. I couldn’t contain myself,” “I watched my son and husband leave, and took a cab back to where I was staying with friends”

newsday-tt Saturday, May 9, 2020 11:51:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith says : “We would have agreed to anything, if we could have only come home,”

newsday-tt Saturday, May 9, 2020 11:51:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith says : “It’s hard, because my son is in Trinidad and I am here,”

newsday-tt Saturday, May 9, 2020 11:51:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Now, these are not new cases that occurred or were diagnosed in the last 24 hours. These actually had been tested by the CDC and there was a few days' delay in getting those results,"

arkansasonline Saturday, May 9, 2020 11:27:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith wrote ( about Little Richard ) : "Nothing was the same after hearing his exciting and excitable voice. In 1955 we were stomping in our Buster Brown shoes, and the name of the energy was Little Richard! Farewell voice of an age; he commingles with the firmament now,"

nbcnews Saturday, May 9, 2020 11:06:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith : “Bone idle people who can’t cook”

coventrytelegraph Thursday, May 7, 2020 3:40:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Being outside and swimming, these are all good activities if we can do them in a way that does not facilitate the spread of covid-19,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, May 6, 2020 11:53:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : “After looking at that and discussing it with the physicians who drafted the directive, we felt like this was an appropriate time based on a risk-based timing,”

wwlp Tuesday, May 5, 2020 8:15:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith noted : "not every facility is going to be ready"

arkansasonline Saturday, April 25, 2020 12:06:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "the context was trying to decide what to do with our casinos. "

arkansasonline Friday, April 24, 2020 12:48:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "have the opportunity to come up with safer ways to do that as well and we will consider that as well,"

arkansasonline Friday, April 24, 2020 12:48:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "But just on the face of it, it was a major concern for me and in fact at one point, one of our [early] deaths was someone who had gone to Oklahoma to go to a casino, and that was the only identifiable risk factor,"

arkansasonline Friday, April 24, 2020 12:48:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "There are some activities that are just intrinsically higher-risk," "For example, we don't have a date on when we'll allow visitation to nursing homes. Those are very high-risk settings. Visitors to correctional facilities, as we've learned, those are very high-risk settings, so we are really going to have to see what happens, not just in Arkansas, but in the rest of the country as well. I think we are doing well here in terms of deaths per capita, our hospitalizations per capita, our cases per capita, but we are not an island and we can get down to zero and have an reintroduction at any point"

arkansasonline Friday, April 24, 2020 12:48:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith replied : "from a public health perspective, I am not comfortable with that and would like the opportunity to talk after I have called the Tennessee health commissioner"

arkansasonline Friday, April 24, 2020 12:48:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "I think that will really depend on what the facility decides to do in terms of whether they can comply with these points in the directive,"

arkansasonline Friday, April 24, 2020 12:18:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Based on some of the testing that we have received, we have decided together with the Cummins Unit to go ahead and test additional barracks,"

arkansasonline Thursday, April 23, 2020 1:56:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Not all of the data from the Cummins Unit are in our system yet," "We had quite a bit of testing over the weekend and overnight"

arkansasonline Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:36:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "It just becomes very, very difficult to contain an outbreak, or even to know whether you've contained an outbreak, if you don't know who's positive, who's negative, who's exposed, who's not exposed,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:36:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "What we teach here is called partner dancing,"

kob Saturday, April 18, 2020 4:10:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "You can push your furniture away and step along with us and hopefully just have some fun and maybe learn something along the way,"

kob Saturday, April 18, 2020 4:10:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "The basic series is for people who either have just started coming to the studio or have never been to our studio or even never taken a dance lesson and it breaks down the basics in a very simple way,"

kob Saturday, April 18, 2020 4:10:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "As we move toward that post-peak relaxing of these restrictions, we're going to know with more detail, more granularity where we have cases and where we don't,"

arkansasonline Thursday, April 16, 2020 1:36:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith asked : "Do you feel you are getting full cooperation now?"

arkansasonline Wednesday, April 15, 2020 1:22:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith wrote : "so isolation issues there are different,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, April 15, 2020 1:22:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said ( about Arkansas Department ) : "There are some challenges in working as a state Department of Health with a federal facility in that they have their own chain of command and issues of who's in charge here,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, April 15, 2020 1:22:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith replied : "Are details available yet about the arrival of the team coming from CDC?"

arkansasonline Wednesday, April 15, 2020 1:22:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "These are high-risk settings where covid-19 can spread very easily, very rapidly, but they're also closed systems and they don't necessarily represent the situation in Arkansas in general,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, April 14, 2020 12:52:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said ( about Justin Trudeau ) : "During this virus, I say, 'Would you like a bite of my carrot?' And then I say, 'I can't share it, because it's [Justin Trudeau's] rule, we can only hug people and share with people that live in our house," "I have bubbles and in the van, I have a jar of Lysol wipes, but I've taken the wrapper off it and written 'Magic' all over it ... I very theatrically wipe [the bubbles] without touching them before giving them away"

CBC Monday, April 13, 2020 8:46:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We believe there's a good chance that that will actually help people who are severely ill to recover,"

arkansasonline Friday, April 10, 2020 10:37:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "If they choose to do that, I think that would be a good thing, and if they don't, just like if it were any other medical or surgical center bringing people from out of state, we would consider further directives,"

arkansasonline Friday, April 10, 2020 1:35:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We wanted to do something that was targeted, and wanted to help jump-start things to where providers could keep their doors open and keep serving clients,"

arkansasonline Thursday, April 9, 2020 1:19:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We need to use the information that we ... have available to plan wisely so that the things that we do today will improve our situation a month or two from now,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, April 7, 2020 12:34:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "They should be arriving early this week, and they will be bringing laboratory support for us as well,"

fox13memphis Tuesday, April 7, 2020 1:00:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "They should be arriving early this week, and they will be bringing laboratory support for us, as well,"

arkansasonline Monday, April 6, 2020 11:46:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "As you can imagine, that's quite challenging in that setting and that's why we've asked our partners at the CDC to come and assist," "We don't always have the easy access to a federal facility that we have to a state facility but we've been providing guidance and so far the folks out there have been following that guidance. Obviously, we need to test more than we have tested and take additional measures to stop the spread"

arkansasonline Monday, April 6, 2020 11:46:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "At least from the numbers that we are looking at across the country, it looks like we are going to continue to have more cases over the next few to several weeks, and so it doesn't make sense to put something off for two or four weeks because I don't have a reason to believe things are going to be better at that point, and they could be worse,"

arkansasonline Sunday, April 5, 2020 12:59:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said ( about Arkansas Department ) : "As I look at those numbers, it seems like we are doing at least as well as any other state, so there doesn't seem to be a compelling reason to do a stay-at-home order here in Arkansas, and Arkansas is not the same as New York City or some of these other parts of the country,"

arkansasonline Saturday, April 4, 2020 1:34:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "I feel like at this point we have a good sample, so we know our trajectory,"

arkansasonline Saturday, April 4, 2020 1:34:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Although we might miss cases of people walking out there with no symptoms or mild symptoms, we're not missing hospitalizations," "When people come in [to the hospital] with symptoms, they do get tested"

arkansasonline Saturday, April 4, 2020 1:34:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : “I don’t think we have to shut down every place that has crowds, but you do not have to be crowded together just because it’s a public place,” “It’s important that we all take responsibility and be mindful of what we’re doing”

theepochtimes Friday, April 3, 2020 5:12:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "I think what we're trying to accomplish here is not to be like every other state or to tick off a box saying that we're a stay-at-home state," "What we're trying to do is to flatten that curve"

arkansasonline Friday, April 3, 2020 1:15:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Forty percent may be high, but I'd rather us shoot for that,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, April 1, 2020 12:12:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We have a plan to test all the residents and all the workers there,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, March 31, 2020 12:52:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Unfortunately there are many things that are challenging in caring for a new disease where our clinicians don't have years of experience," "They do their best, but sometimes people can seem to be getting better and then they can take a turn for the worse"

arkansasonline Monday, March 30, 2020 1:39:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "The whole medical team, from clerks to medical assistants to respiratory therapists, and all the others are putting themselves at risk when they care for patients, " "All our health care workers are serving sacrificially"

arkansasonline Monday, March 30, 2020 1:39:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "I do think we're seeing more transmission of covid-19 in our state, and those who had been infected but had no symptoms are now becoming symptomatic and seeking testing," "That's what we can expect in the next days and weeks ahead, and that's why it's so important that we take these steps to interrupt transmission to protect ourselves, our families and our communities"

arkansasonline Thursday, March 26, 2020 7:33:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : “As we go along, it’s likely we’re going to need to figure out more efficient ways (to deliver care),”

arkansasonline Thursday, March 26, 2020 12:28:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "The idea is that we don't want people coming in contact with each other and then potentiating the spread of covid-19," "Anything that can be done without that kind of contact, that should be just fine"

arkansasonline Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:29:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "The good news is that we've really only gotten one additional positive case from the residents and staff that we've tested,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:29:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "There's the potential to cause some very serious harm for medications that we really don't have very strong evidence for at all,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:29:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "They are really on the front lines as much as doctors and nurses in the hospitals,"

arkansasonline Monday, March 23, 2020 1:35:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "been working around the clock very hard and will continue to build our capacity there,"

arkansasonline Monday, March 23, 2020 1:35:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Many of our nursing home residents have got complicated medical histories, and they may go in and out of the hospital from time to time," "Someone at the hospital felt like there was enough suspicion to go ahead and test, even though that may not be primarily what was being suspected"

arkansasonline Monday, March 23, 2020 1:06:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "What we are doing in each of those cases is working very closely with the staff and management at those facilities to test all of the residents, as well as all the staff,"

arkansasonline Saturday, March 21, 2020 2:09:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We're not going to be able to contact every single person in Arkansas who's had contact with a positive case,"

arkansasonline Friday, March 20, 2020 2:46:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We're not going to be able to contact every single person in Arkansas who's had contact with a positive case,"

arkansasonline Friday, March 20, 2020 1:39:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Personal protective equipment, consistently used, is effective, but there was a period of time before covid-19 was suspected for this patient,"

arkansasonline Sunday, March 15, 2020 6:59:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Personal protective equipment, consistently used, is effective, but there was a period of time before covid-19 was suspected for this patient,"

arkansasonline Sunday, March 15, 2020 12:42:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith garantiu : “Aqueles que partiram, que você ama e de quem sente saudade estão com você agora”

uai Tuesday, November 19, 2019 2:52:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith contou : "Estávamos apenas a tentar falar de dois sonhadores que se encontraram mas que estavam destinados a ter um fim triste"

dn Monday, July 31, 2017 7:31:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith dijo : “Disculpen. Lo siento, estoy tan nerviosa”

diariolibre-en Tuesday, December 13, 2016 6:24:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith déclaré : «vivre, c’est attendre le nouvel album des Rolling Stones»

laliberte Saturday, September 17, 2016 4:22:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : “I’m really proud of them, incredibly,”

mlive Thursday, September 24, 2020 6:31:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith added : "Without a reasonable anticipation of harm, I cannot justify continuing to curtail their economic activity. As the Governor noted, we are already at least halfway into phase 2 (and into phase 3 for some activities), so this is not a very radicle [sic] move,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, July 29, 2020 12:32:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith wrote : "Transmission is increasing, but the available evidence suggests it is not related to the activities under restrictions we are lifting in phase 2," "Basically, if we did not see related transmission when we went from closed to 33% capacity, I don't have reason to anticipate that we will have substantial levels of related transmission when we go from 33% to 66%"

arkansasonline Wednesday, July 29, 2020 12:32:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "So we really have not had large hot spots with lots of bars and gyms, for example," "So we will try to implement those recommendations in an Arkansas specific fashion when we can, but not everything may exactly fit, because they're designed really for all 50 states"

arkansasonline Saturday, July 18, 2020 12:59:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "If this gets the data more quickly to where it's actionable, then I have no objection to it," "But it is important that all those who need to be looking at those data have access to it and can have input on it"

arkansasonline Thursday, July 16, 2020 12:42:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "What that tells us is those are the chances that if you're out and about in your community, what are the chances that you're going to encounter someone who has an active case,"

arkansasonline Friday, July 10, 2020 12:28:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "They had advertised for a karaoke night, which seemed a particularly bad idea in a packed venue when there's already potential cases connected to that,"

arkansasonline Thursday, July 9, 2020 10:25:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Camp Ozark shared the information that they had on out-of-state campers and a counselor. They took action. They initially sent campers home and some counselors home, and then, as they had additional cases, they made the decision on their own to go ahead and close down for now,"

wrcbtv Thursday, July 9, 2020 4:21:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "This is pretty widespread in the central region, and so this is going to take a collective action in order to turn this around," "There's not the same ability to focus our efforts in one area and expect it to come down quickly"

arkansasonline Tuesday, July 7, 2020 1:17:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We are not behind in terms of making that initial contact," "Sometimes it does take us a little while to get a hold of that person, but that's to be expected"

arkansasonline Tuesday, July 7, 2020 1:17:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "They had advertised for a karaoke night, which seemed a particularly bad idea in a packed venue when there's already potential cases connected to that,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, July 7, 2020 12:45:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Things you might've gotten away with over Memorial Day weekend are going to be riskier this weekend,"

arkansasonline Monday, July 6, 2020 12:54:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith says : "Outside activities, you are definitely safer than inside activities,"

npr Friday, July 3, 2020 4:22:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We want to make sure that those people get tested, but we also want to make sure the hospitals are able to use their resources to take care of the sick patients that they have that are under their care,"

arkansasonline Friday, July 3, 2020 12:43:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said ( about Arkansas Department ) : “My biggest concern with the Fourth of July is that in Arkansas, we have more than three times as many active cases now as we did in Memorial Day weekend,”

thehill Thursday, July 2, 2020 1:35:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : “The same activities are going to be associated with a higher risk of acquiring COVID-19 so we need to be more vigilant this time than we were Memorial Day,”

thehill Thursday, July 2, 2020 1:35:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : “Although we haven’t had an explosive increase in cases we’re going to have to be very vigilant in this central part of the state because that’s our most densely populated portion of the state,”

arkansasonline Monday, June 29, 2020 11:36:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "If it's shortly after the outbreak has resolved, it could be that there was someone who initially tested negative but was actually incubating infection and then later goes on to develop infection," "But then we also have staff who are coming and going, and all the same things that caused the introduction in the first place"

arkansasonline Friday, June 26, 2020 12:49:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Early on the Governor had expressed reservations because their models, like many others at the time, had predicted very high numbers of hospitalized patients, ventilated patients and deaths,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, June 24, 2020 12:58:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith wrote : "My usual bias is toward the empiric and with COVID-19 even more so," "Over the last couple of days we have had a clear downward trend in new cases in [Northwest Arkansas] with a slight downward trend in other parts of our state. Since the new cases in NW are driving our current numbers, it is most likely that over the next few weeks we will see the number of new cases for the state decrease and the number of active cases begin to decline. On the other hand, anything can happen"

arkansasonline Wednesday, June 24, 2020 12:58:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "It's very concerning to see the way that this virus spreads, and it can spread very quickly and could result in a large number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths in our state," "But we also have learned how to protect ourselves and reduce the spread of covid-19"

arkansasonline Wednesday, June 24, 2020 12:47:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "If you get a high usage rate [of masks], whether or not you have a requirement, you are likely to have decreased transmission," "Requiring it and having a low rate of usage will give you higher rates of transmission"

arkansasonline Tuesday, June 23, 2020 4:20:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We are particularly concerned about infections, hospitalizations and deaths in some of our harder to reach communities where there may be barriers of language or culture, so we are looking at that very carefully. "

arkansasonline Sunday, June 14, 2020 12:00:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We've been seeing daily a high number of cases in Washington County, and a high proportion of them have been in the Latino community," "We're not seeing any departure from that pattern"

arkansasonline Friday, June 12, 2020 12:53:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "to help us to better understand the dynamics of transmission in the northwest part of the state, particularly in Washington and Benton counties, helping to understand this interplay between transmission in the home, in the community and in the workplace,"

arkansasonline Friday, June 12, 2020 12:53:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith noted : "went from being closed to being a third capacity," "If we were going to see a resurgence, that's when we would have expected to see it,"

arkansasonline Thursday, June 11, 2020 12:57:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "The concern was, is Atlanta going to be the next New Orleans," "Well, it wasn't, and that's a good thing"

arkansasonline Thursday, June 11, 2020 12:57:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "You can see this is not just two counties," "We've got activity going on throughout the state, and so all of us need to take those precautions"

arkansasonline Thursday, June 11, 2020 12:57:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Because we have had such an increase in the number of cases, it's not that surprising that hospitalizations would come next," "I won't be surprised if we have additional deaths, unfortunately"

arkansasonline Tuesday, June 9, 2020 1:37:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We're not in danger of exceeding our capacity, but we'll be checking with the hospitals that have received patients just to make sure that no individual hospital is being overtaxed,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, June 9, 2020 1:37:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Contact tracing is more challenging in a setting where people may be in a crowd or with a lot of people they don't know," "We will do our best with that if we start to see cases that are associated with protests"

arkansasonline Tuesday, June 9, 2020 1:37:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "This is characteristic of this sort of second wave that we're seeing," "Again, mostly from the northwest part of the state, tend to be younger individuals, and a relatively large proportion in the Latino community"

arkansasonline Saturday, June 6, 2020 10:56:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "This is characteristic of this sort of second wave that we're seeing," "Again, mostly from the northwest part of the state, tend to be younger individuals, and a relatively large proportion in the Latino community"

arkansasonline Saturday, June 6, 2020 12:48:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Our nursing home residents are very vulnerable, and that's why we've spent so much time focusing on them, trying to protect them,"

arkansasonline Thursday, June 4, 2020 1:07:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "That's one where we prioritize the contact tracing because we know that there may be several who were exposed all at once,"

arkansasonline Thursday, June 4, 2020 1:07:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "who did things on Memorial Day weekend that they maybe ought not to have done, that they're now starting to develop symptoms and get tested," "I don't know that, but this is about the time that we might expect to see Memorial Day phenomenon"

arkansasonline Thursday, June 4, 2020 1:07:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "If we at least do what we did last month, we should even exceed the 120,000,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, June 3, 2020 11:59:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We'll have to see what happens in central, but that one-day spike is really attributable to the nursing home,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, June 3, 2020 11:59:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "So we need to do even more testing in the Northwest,"

arkansasonline Monday, June 1, 2020 10:24:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We have had some cases that although they involve the community, there's been perhaps some acceleration with some workplaces, particularly those associated with the poultry industry,"

arkansasonline Sunday, May 31, 2020 4:39:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "What we have seen is that rather than having one covid-19 outbreak in Arkansas, we've had many outbreaks in different parts of the state effective at different times,"

arkansasonline Thursday, May 28, 2020 12:52:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "There is absolutely no disagreement with the approach that we've taken here," "Working for the governor has been one of the highlights of my career and made it very difficult to make this decision"

arkansasonline Wednesday, May 27, 2020 1:31:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Part of this may be accessibility of testing," "We have not had testing as easily available to everyone in the state. Now that we're testing in 79 of our local health units, there's much greater accessibility"

arkansasonline Wednesday, May 27, 2020 1:31:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We don't have information at this point whether they're related to poultry plants, but we do know there are communities that are being affected,"

arkansasonline Sunday, May 24, 2020 12:20:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We are using this information to focus our testing efforts,"

arkansasonline Sunday, May 24, 2020 12:20:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We'll continue to do those extra testing events wherever we see an increased number of cases,"

arkansasonline Sunday, May 24, 2020 12:20:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : “We need to look down and actually see what’s happening,” “Are these cases that were associated with activities that have been going on from the beginning or are these associated with newly reopened activities? That’s the critical question”

arkansasonline Friday, May 22, 2020 1:23:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : “We need to look down and actually see what’s happening,” “Are these cases that were associated with activities that have been going on from the beginning or are these associated with newly reopened activities? That’s the critical question”

arkansasonline Thursday, May 21, 2020 11:50:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith wrote : "To ensure the continuity of testing, the laboratory requires updates to critical infrastructure," "Additionally, the laboratory is planning for the autumn and the potential testing of both influenza and COVID-19 by utilizing new technology that can test both simultaneously"

arkansasonline Thursday, May 21, 2020 11:55:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Since we've pretty much tripled our testing rate, we are identifying a lot of cases, especially asymptomatic cases that we weren't picking up before this,"

ABCnews Wednesday, May 20, 2020 8:49:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "These activities don't appear to be driving our community cases at this point,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, May 20, 2020 11:24:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We are identifying a lot of cases, especially asymptomatic cases, that we weren't picking up before this,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, May 20, 2020 11:24:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "already have a plan for testing, and we just receive the results and help them to work through the contact tracing," "In other cases we do provide testing and whatever support is needed"

arkansasonline Wednesday, May 20, 2020 11:24:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Fortunately, our number of cases have come down since then, and hopefully we'll see those hospitalizations come down as well, but we'll be watching that very carefully,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, May 19, 2020 12:25:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We're going to need to adjust our behavior individually and not count on someone looking over our shoulder to tell us what we know we need to do to protect ourselves and others,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, May 19, 2020 12:25:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "When we developed each of these directives, we had in mind each particular group that was involved in these directives," "Obviously, a place of worship is different than a concert hall. There are some similarities but there are also some significant differences, especially with this event they're expecting people from a number of different states -- people who normally wouldn't come in contact with each another. So that really increases the risk of covid-19 transmission"

arkansasonline Friday, May 15, 2020 1:19:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "When we developed each of these directives, we had in mind each particular group that was involved in these directives," "Obviously, a place of worship is different than a concert hall. There are some similarities but there are also some significant differences, especially with this event they're expecting people from a number of different states, people who normally wouldn't come in contact with each another so that really increases the risk of covid-19 transmission"

arkansasonline Thursday, May 14, 2020 12:50:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith wrote : "On May 11, I personally advised you by phone through counsel that you should postpone your event, and of today's date, it is my understanding that you intend to violate the orders of the governor and the health directive by holding your event May 15," "By your actions, you are in violation of the Arkansas Public Health Code,"

arkansasonline Thursday, May 14, 2020 12:50:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith wrote : "It is the duty of every holder of an alcoholic beverage permit issued by the state of Arkansas to operate the business in a manner that is in the public interest and does not endanger the public health, welfare or safety,"

arkansasonline Thursday, May 14, 2020 12:50:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "That was a really great win for us,"

CBC Thursday, May 14, 2020 12:06:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "I think it's a really great situation. I think there's been so many different factors that have come together,"

CBC Thursday, May 14, 2020 12:06:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We've got the testing capacity," "What we need now is for people in the community ... to come forward to get tested"

arkansasonline Tuesday, May 12, 2020 11:41:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "I am concerned about this increase in the number of cases, the 100 in the community especially, but I'm even more concerned about the cases we don't know about and that's why it's so important that we increase testing," "We really need to know who's positive, who's negative, who's been exposed and who's not been exposed"

arkansasonline Tuesday, May 12, 2020 11:41:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith replied : "From a public health standpoint I am still not comfortable with that and would like the opportunity to talk after I have called the Tennessee health commissioner,"

arkansasonline Monday, May 11, 2020 12:07:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Louisiana has closed their casinos, and Mississippi is planning to this evening or tomorrow," "I am concerned about their people coming here if we stay open"

arkansasonline Monday, May 11, 2020 12:07:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "These are not new cases that occurred or were diagnosed in the last 24 hours. These actually had been tested by the CDC, and there was a few days' delay in getting those results,"

arkansasonline Sunday, May 10, 2020 12:49:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith says : “I cried right through. I couldn’t contain myself,” “I watched my son and husband leave, and took a cab back to where I was staying with friends”

newsday-tt Saturday, May 9, 2020 11:51:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith says : “We would have agreed to anything, if we could have only come home,”

newsday-tt Saturday, May 9, 2020 11:51:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith says : “It’s hard, because my son is in Trinidad and I am here,”

newsday-tt Saturday, May 9, 2020 11:51:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Now, these are not new cases that occurred or were diagnosed in the last 24 hours. These actually had been tested by the CDC and there was a few days' delay in getting those results,"

arkansasonline Saturday, May 9, 2020 11:27:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith wrote ( about Little Richard ) : "Nothing was the same after hearing his exciting and excitable voice. In 1955 we were stomping in our Buster Brown shoes, and the name of the energy was Little Richard! Farewell voice of an age; he commingles with the firmament now,"

nbcnews Saturday, May 9, 2020 11:06:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith : “Bone idle people who can’t cook”

coventrytelegraph Thursday, May 7, 2020 3:40:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Being outside and swimming, these are all good activities if we can do them in a way that does not facilitate the spread of covid-19,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, May 6, 2020 11:53:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : “After looking at that and discussing it with the physicians who drafted the directive, we felt like this was an appropriate time based on a risk-based timing,”

wwlp Tuesday, May 5, 2020 8:15:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith noted : "not every facility is going to be ready"

arkansasonline Saturday, April 25, 2020 12:06:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "the context was trying to decide what to do with our casinos. "

arkansasonline Friday, April 24, 2020 12:48:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "have the opportunity to come up with safer ways to do that as well and we will consider that as well,"

arkansasonline Friday, April 24, 2020 12:48:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "But just on the face of it, it was a major concern for me and in fact at one point, one of our [early] deaths was someone who had gone to Oklahoma to go to a casino, and that was the only identifiable risk factor,"

arkansasonline Friday, April 24, 2020 12:48:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "There are some activities that are just intrinsically higher-risk," "For example, we don't have a date on when we'll allow visitation to nursing homes. Those are very high-risk settings. Visitors to correctional facilities, as we've learned, those are very high-risk settings, so we are really going to have to see what happens, not just in Arkansas, but in the rest of the country as well. I think we are doing well here in terms of deaths per capita, our hospitalizations per capita, our cases per capita, but we are not an island and we can get down to zero and have an reintroduction at any point"

arkansasonline Friday, April 24, 2020 12:48:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith replied : "from a public health perspective, I am not comfortable with that and would like the opportunity to talk after I have called the Tennessee health commissioner"

arkansasonline Friday, April 24, 2020 12:48:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "I think that will really depend on what the facility decides to do in terms of whether they can comply with these points in the directive,"

arkansasonline Friday, April 24, 2020 12:18:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Based on some of the testing that we have received, we have decided together with the Cummins Unit to go ahead and test additional barracks,"

arkansasonline Thursday, April 23, 2020 1:56:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Not all of the data from the Cummins Unit are in our system yet," "We had quite a bit of testing over the weekend and overnight"

arkansasonline Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:36:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "It just becomes very, very difficult to contain an outbreak, or even to know whether you've contained an outbreak, if you don't know who's positive, who's negative, who's exposed, who's not exposed,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:36:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "What we teach here is called partner dancing,"

kob Saturday, April 18, 2020 4:10:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "You can push your furniture away and step along with us and hopefully just have some fun and maybe learn something along the way,"

kob Saturday, April 18, 2020 4:10:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "The basic series is for people who either have just started coming to the studio or have never been to our studio or even never taken a dance lesson and it breaks down the basics in a very simple way,"

kob Saturday, April 18, 2020 4:10:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "As we move toward that post-peak relaxing of these restrictions, we're going to know with more detail, more granularity where we have cases and where we don't,"

arkansasonline Thursday, April 16, 2020 1:36:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith asked : "Do you feel you are getting full cooperation now?"

arkansasonline Wednesday, April 15, 2020 1:22:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith wrote : "so isolation issues there are different,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, April 15, 2020 1:22:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said ( about Arkansas Department ) : "There are some challenges in working as a state Department of Health with a federal facility in that they have their own chain of command and issues of who's in charge here,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, April 15, 2020 1:22:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith replied : "Are details available yet about the arrival of the team coming from CDC?"

arkansasonline Wednesday, April 15, 2020 1:22:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "These are high-risk settings where covid-19 can spread very easily, very rapidly, but they're also closed systems and they don't necessarily represent the situation in Arkansas in general,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, April 14, 2020 12:52:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said ( about Justin Trudeau ) : "During this virus, I say, 'Would you like a bite of my carrot?' And then I say, 'I can't share it, because it's [Justin Trudeau's] rule, we can only hug people and share with people that live in our house," "I have bubbles and in the van, I have a jar of Lysol wipes, but I've taken the wrapper off it and written 'Magic' all over it ... I very theatrically wipe [the bubbles] without touching them before giving them away"

CBC Monday, April 13, 2020 8:46:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We believe there's a good chance that that will actually help people who are severely ill to recover,"

arkansasonline Friday, April 10, 2020 10:37:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "If they choose to do that, I think that would be a good thing, and if they don't, just like if it were any other medical or surgical center bringing people from out of state, we would consider further directives,"

arkansasonline Friday, April 10, 2020 1:35:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We wanted to do something that was targeted, and wanted to help jump-start things to where providers could keep their doors open and keep serving clients,"

arkansasonline Thursday, April 9, 2020 1:19:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We need to use the information that we ... have available to plan wisely so that the things that we do today will improve our situation a month or two from now,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, April 7, 2020 12:34:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "They should be arriving early this week, and they will be bringing laboratory support for us as well,"

fox13memphis Tuesday, April 7, 2020 1:00:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "They should be arriving early this week, and they will be bringing laboratory support for us, as well,"

arkansasonline Monday, April 6, 2020 11:46:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "As you can imagine, that's quite challenging in that setting and that's why we've asked our partners at the CDC to come and assist," "We don't always have the easy access to a federal facility that we have to a state facility but we've been providing guidance and so far the folks out there have been following that guidance. Obviously, we need to test more than we have tested and take additional measures to stop the spread"

arkansasonline Monday, April 6, 2020 11:46:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "At least from the numbers that we are looking at across the country, it looks like we are going to continue to have more cases over the next few to several weeks, and so it doesn't make sense to put something off for two or four weeks because I don't have a reason to believe things are going to be better at that point, and they could be worse,"

arkansasonline Sunday, April 5, 2020 12:59:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said ( about Arkansas Department ) : "As I look at those numbers, it seems like we are doing at least as well as any other state, so there doesn't seem to be a compelling reason to do a stay-at-home order here in Arkansas, and Arkansas is not the same as New York City or some of these other parts of the country,"

arkansasonline Saturday, April 4, 2020 1:34:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "I feel like at this point we have a good sample, so we know our trajectory,"

arkansasonline Saturday, April 4, 2020 1:34:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Although we might miss cases of people walking out there with no symptoms or mild symptoms, we're not missing hospitalizations," "When people come in [to the hospital] with symptoms, they do get tested"

arkansasonline Saturday, April 4, 2020 1:34:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : “I don’t think we have to shut down every place that has crowds, but you do not have to be crowded together just because it’s a public place,” “It’s important that we all take responsibility and be mindful of what we’re doing”

theepochtimes Friday, April 3, 2020 5:12:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "I think what we're trying to accomplish here is not to be like every other state or to tick off a box saying that we're a stay-at-home state," "What we're trying to do is to flatten that curve"

arkansasonline Friday, April 3, 2020 1:15:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Forty percent may be high, but I'd rather us shoot for that,"

arkansasonline Wednesday, April 1, 2020 12:12:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We have a plan to test all the residents and all the workers there,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, March 31, 2020 12:52:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Unfortunately there are many things that are challenging in caring for a new disease where our clinicians don't have years of experience," "They do their best, but sometimes people can seem to be getting better and then they can take a turn for the worse"

arkansasonline Monday, March 30, 2020 1:39:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "The whole medical team, from clerks to medical assistants to respiratory therapists, and all the others are putting themselves at risk when they care for patients, " "All our health care workers are serving sacrificially"

arkansasonline Monday, March 30, 2020 1:39:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "I do think we're seeing more transmission of covid-19 in our state, and those who had been infected but had no symptoms are now becoming symptomatic and seeking testing," "That's what we can expect in the next days and weeks ahead, and that's why it's so important that we take these steps to interrupt transmission to protect ourselves, our families and our communities"

arkansasonline Thursday, March 26, 2020 7:33:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : “As we go along, it’s likely we’re going to need to figure out more efficient ways (to deliver care),”

arkansasonline Thursday, March 26, 2020 12:28:00 AM EAT

Patti Smith said : "The idea is that we don't want people coming in contact with each other and then potentiating the spread of covid-19," "Anything that can be done without that kind of contact, that should be just fine"

arkansasonline Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:29:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "The good news is that we've really only gotten one additional positive case from the residents and staff that we've tested,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:29:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "There's the potential to cause some very serious harm for medications that we really don't have very strong evidence for at all,"

arkansasonline Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:29:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "They are really on the front lines as much as doctors and nurses in the hospitals,"

arkansasonline Monday, March 23, 2020 1:35:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "been working around the clock very hard and will continue to build our capacity there,"

arkansasonline Monday, March 23, 2020 1:35:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Many of our nursing home residents have got complicated medical histories, and they may go in and out of the hospital from time to time," "Someone at the hospital felt like there was enough suspicion to go ahead and test, even though that may not be primarily what was being suspected"

arkansasonline Monday, March 23, 2020 1:06:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "What we are doing in each of those cases is working very closely with the staff and management at those facilities to test all of the residents, as well as all the staff,"

arkansasonline Saturday, March 21, 2020 2:09:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We're not going to be able to contact every single person in Arkansas who's had contact with a positive case,"

arkansasonline Friday, March 20, 2020 2:46:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "We're not going to be able to contact every single person in Arkansas who's had contact with a positive case,"

arkansasonline Friday, March 20, 2020 1:39:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Personal protective equipment, consistently used, is effective, but there was a period of time before covid-19 was suspected for this patient,"

arkansasonline Sunday, March 15, 2020 6:59:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith said : "Personal protective equipment, consistently used, is effective, but there was a period of time before covid-19 was suspected for this patient,"

arkansasonline Sunday, March 15, 2020 12:42:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith garantiu : “Aqueles que partiram, que você ama e de quem sente saudade estão com você agora”

uai Tuesday, November 19, 2019 2:52:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith contou : "Estávamos apenas a tentar falar de dois sonhadores que se encontraram mas que estavam destinados a ter um fim triste"

dn Monday, July 31, 2017 7:31:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith dijo : “Disculpen. Lo siento, estoy tan nerviosa”

diariolibre-en Tuesday, December 13, 2016 6:24:00 PM EAT

Patti Smith déclaré : «vivre, c’est attendre le nouvel album des Rolling Stones»

laliberte Saturday, September 17, 2016 4:22:00 AM EAT