In January 2021, Memorial Hospital President Art Mathisen leads one of the Zoom meetings held frequently over the past two years to update the community on the COVID-19 virus. The hospital ended the practice on March 11. (SCREENSHOT)
Hospital officials held the meetings weekly or biweekly for much of the past two years to update health-care, business and community leaders about the COVID-19 virus. The hospital also discontinued the meetings March 11, noting a sharp decline in COVID-19 cases in the Mount Washington Valley and the state. (SCREENSHOT)
In January 2021, Memorial Hospital President Art Mathisen leads one of the Zoom meetings held frequently over the past two years to update the community on the COVID-19 virus. The hospital ended the practice on March 11. (SCREENSHOT)
Hospital officials held the meetings weekly or biweekly for much of the past two years to update health-care, business and community leaders about the COVID-19 virus. The hospital also discontinued the meetings March 11, noting a sharp decline in COVID-19 cases in the Mount Washington Valley and the state. (SCREENSHOT)
CONWAY — From the start of the pandemic, health-care workers jumped to respond to what started quietly with talk of a virus on the other side of the world to something that profoundly affected everyone in the valley — and the world.
Memorial Hospital President Art Mathisen remembered being on a conference call with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in January of 2020 and “talking about something called COVID and a virus potentially coming from China.
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