gary know marks a long time to get ready before he can enter the intensive care unit at arkansas university hospital. you know in spain and italy as minister 50 percent of medical personnel got infected and many died. patients with coated 19 are currently being treated here that means they're on artificial respiration sometimes for weeks and as doctors here stress they're not exclusively people from high risk groups. we have patients here who are not 18 years old some are only in their sixty's. and they didn't all have preexisting health conditions some were apparently healthy before. is one such patient the 52 year old things he was infected in austria he's being treated for kobe 1000 at a hospital in bavaria for nearly 3 weeks he was on a respirator fighting for his life. it was like a bad dream and one point i remember hearing someone say to me you have to fight you have to survive that. this hospital has become a center for cope with 19 patients until recently the situation here was extreme with more than half of the 280 beds taken by corona patients now the numbers have started to go down. we l

together and allowed hospitals to collaborate with each other in ways that we probably never have before. so i would say in arkansas and particularly in little rock at the university sciences, we are very secure in our ppe supplies but we're also very cognizant of the fact that these supplies are always at risk. >> so what specifically has arkansas done that has put you in such good standing at this point? >> well, i think one thing we've done is plan ahead. and i know a lot of planning went into every day. every single day we look at the numbers, as a command center, how many of each individual items we have for each personal protective equipment device and we look at how many we have and how many days on hand we have in order to prepare for the next week. we're careful and we monitor these very carefully. >> are you at all concerned that your governor earlier today had to defend his decision not to issue a stay-at-home order? do you have any concerns about that, that people are going about their business as normal? >> you know, i run the tree -- the triage unit and we have screened 7,000 people in the last couple of weeks. and i ask that question all of the time