CONWAY — Memorial Hospital officials said last Friday that COVID case numbers are beginning to fall, noting that people wanting tests at the hospital’s drive-thru testing center as well as numbers of inpatients decreased last week.
Memorial also is bouncing back from outbreaks at the nursing home and among hospital staff.
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