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Posted Mar 9, 2022, 5:54 am
Camila Pedrosa
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U.S. life expectancy fell by an “unprecedented and shocking” 1.8 years between 2019 and 2020, a dramatic drop that experts say can only partly be blamed on the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Read more»
Posted Nov 5, 2021, 10:28 am
Diannie Chavez
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Just hours after the Biden administration issued regulations Thursday to require that businesses mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for their workers, Arizona officials were vowing to fight what one called a “direct attack” on personal liberty. ... Read more»
Posted Aug 27, 2021, 7:26 am
Andy Miller
/Kaiser Health News
Public health experts are voicing concern about the pullback of COVID information from state government websites, as states including Georgia and Florida have cut back their public case reporting despite the nation being engulfed in a fourth, Delta-driven COVID surge.... Read more»
Posted Aug 24, 2021, 1:17 pm
Ulysse Bex
/Cronkite News
Health officials expressed hope Monday that the Food and Drug Administration’s full approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine will boost vaccinations in Arizona, which lags well behind the national average. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 16, 2021, 8:02 pm
Jacob Holter
/Cronkite News
Children from 6 months up to 12 years old could soon start getting the COVID-19 vaccine in Phoenix as part of a trial of the drug’s effectiveness on young people.... Read more»
Posted Jan 26, 2021, 11:09 am
Ryan Knappenberger
/Cronkite News
COVID-19 is on the verge of becoming the leading cause of death in Arizona, surpassing cancer and closing in on heart disease, according to the latest data from the Arizona Department of Health Services. ... Read more»
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