 Although COVID-19 numbers are on the decline, some family members and friends are still struggling with its effects, including Pikeville Police Department's own officer Oliver Little who contracted COVID-19 last month. Tuesday local law enforcement shared words of encouragement to help out their fellow officer. Probably about 20 some days ago, down with the COVID and went into the hospital and stayed for a couple weeks and then seemed like he had a turn for the worse and has since then been put on event and is struggling every day now. Here at Pikeville Medical Center's Heart and Vascular Institute we have assembled a comprehensive team of cardiac specialists bringing expertise from all regions of the nation and the world. We have coupled that with cutting edge technology, providing them the best equipment and operating rooms available. The result is comprehensive cardiac care for the people of our region that is second to none. The Heart and Vascular Institute at Pikeville Medical Center. Since being admitted, Hunt says Little has improved, however the Roach recovery is still long. We, our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family. All the officers here, I've said before in interviews before, law enforcement is a very tight-knit community, very tight-knit family. You see somebody hurting, another officer hurting across the country, it hurts you. But this is kind of personal. We hope he makes a full recovery. We're, you know, praying that he does that. He's like, obviously he's our family. He's been with me for several years. Has been a key part of our success into our office, but and he's a great guy and does a great job as a police officer, so we hope and pray that he'll do good and come out of this, you know, with with good health. You know, hopefully everything works out well. He's a tough guy. Hopefully, you know, he pulls through this. I think he can. For Mountain Top News, I'm Joel Chorjol.