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Posted Jan 13, 2021, 12:40 pm
Laura Olson
/Arizona Mirror
States are urged to expand the sites being used for vaccinations, and will see their allocation of doses change. The number of vaccine doses sent to states each week will no longer be based on population, but rather on the pace of vaccine administration and the number of residents 65 and older.... Read more»
Posted Jan 8, 2021, 2:38 pm
Laura Olson
/Arizona Mirror
The Trump administration, through its Operation Warp Speed working group, has held back the second dose of the two-shot vaccine regimens, saying the approach is to ensure that the follow-up dose will be available for each person who receives the initial shot. ... Read more»
Updated Apr 27, 2020, 2:50 pm
Emmarie Huetteman
/Kaiser Health News
Federal officials offering emergency funding to hospitals, clinics and doctors’ practices have included this stipulation: They cannot foist surprise medical bills on COVID-19 patients.... Read more»
Posted Apr 20, 2020, 1:50 pm
Jessica McDonald, D'Angelo Gore, Robert Farley, Eugene Kiely & Lori Robertson/FactCheck
Trump made his announcement on funding at the White House coronavirus task force daily briefing on April 14, accusing the WHO of “severely mismanaging and covering up the spread of the coronavirus.” There is no evidence that the WHO has covered up the spread of the novel coronavirus. There has, however, been evidence that China was slow to report the outbreak. ... Read more»
Posted Apr 8, 2020, 10:27 am
Rachana Pradham & Christina Jewett /Kaiser Health News
A high-ranking federal official in late February warned that the U.S. needed to plan for not having enough personal protective equipment for medical workers battling coronavirus, internal emails show.... Read more»
Posted Apr 7, 2020, 2:04 pm
Megan Mineiro
/Courthouse News Service
As the U.S. entered “peak death week” in the coronavirus outbreak, an internal government watchdog reported Monday that hospitals are in dangerously short supply of not only protective gear and testing kits, but basic materials like thermometers, toilet paper and disinfectants, putting health care workers at risk. ... Read more»
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Posted Apr 7, 2020, 10:13 am
Akilah Johnson & Talia Buford/ProPublica
Environmental, economic and political factors have compounded for generations, putting black people at higher risk of chronic conditions that leave lungs weak and immune systems vulnerable: asthma, heart disease, hypertension and diabetes. These conditions make the coronavirus more dangerous than it already is.... Read more»
Posted Feb 25, 2020, 3:16 pm
Christine Vestal
/Stateline
Other states are starting to emulate what has become known as the “Arizona model” for crisis care, in which suicide hotlines, mobile crisis units and crisis facilities are electronically linked, creating a comprehensive system of services to address the first 24 hours of a person’s psychiatric emergency. ... Read more»
Posted Sep 5, 2019, 3:01 pm
Megan Boyanton
/Cronkite News
Arizona will get more than $20 million in State Opioid Response grant funds from the federal government, part of $1.8 billion in grants the Trump administration said it was releasing to states Wednesday.... Read more»
Posted Nov 17, 2018, 3:56 pm
Carmen Heredia Rodriguez
/Kaiser Health News
A two-year Centers for Disease Control study found gun deaths by suicide and homicide surpassed 71,000, an increase reversing a decades-long trend.... Read more»
Posted Jul 12, 2018, 1:49 pm
Paul Ingram
/TucsonSentinel.com
Two days after the feds missed a court-imposed deadline to reunite more than 100 children with their migrant parents after they were separated under by the Trump administration, only about half of those kis have been returned in a chaotic process marked by computer malfunctions, logistical problems and administrative failures.... Read more»
Posted Jul 6, 2018, 2:29 pm
Ginger Thompson
/ProPublica
Jimena Madrid riveted people around the world when her voice was captured on an audiotape after she was separated from her mother inside a Border Patrol detention facility. Three weeks later, reunification remains uncertain. “She says over and over, ‘Mommy, I want to be with you.’”... Read more»
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