Stories from Wednesday, August 12, 2020

Five new cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in Stoddard County by Ben Godwin, Director of the Stoddard County Health Center. Godwin also confirmed five recoveries. The county now sits at 238 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 23 active cases, 206 recoveries and nine deaths...

Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center staff reported today that 11 patients are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, with four of them on ventilators. “We are having a rise in inpatients,” Johnna Craft, chief compliance officer, announced at the COVID -19 briefing Wednesday, which is held weekly with Butler County officials...