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Posted Apr 19, 2022, 1:22 pm
Gloria Gomez
/Don Bolles Fellow, University of Arizona
The future of classroom COVID-19 mitigation measures now lies in Gov. Doug Ducey’s hands: A bill the state Senate approved Monday would force schools to seek parental consent if they want to keep their students masked up. ... Read more»
Posted Mar 11, 2022, 4:19 am
Alexia Stanbridge
/Cronkite News
Arizona flu cases are down sharply for the second year in a row, a decline that health experts are attributing to the health and safety precautions that came with the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 27, 2022, 6:00 am
Camila Pedrosa
/Cronkite News
Two years after Arizona’s first confirmed case of COVID-19, the state has racked up close to 1.8 million infections and the virus has killed almost 26,000, just two of many grim milestones on the pandemic’s “really long journey.” ... Read more»
Posted Dec 31, 2021, 11:49 am
Diannie Chavez
/Cronkite News
COVID-19 claimed almost 15,800 lives in Arizona this year, putting it on track to be the leading cause of death in the state in 2021 - a change from 2020, when the virus was the third-leading cause of death behind heart disease and cancer.... Read more»
Posted Dec 30, 2021, 7:49 am
Diannie Chavez
/Cronkite News
The COVID-19 pandemic and a growing unsafe drug supply combined to push overdose deaths up by 27.6% in the U.S. over a 12-month period from 2020 to 2021, a surge in deaths that was matched in Arizona. ... Read more»
Posted Oct 27, 2021, 12:29 pm
Prince James Story
/Cronkite News
In one west Phoenix neighborhood, several Latina moms came together in a grassroots organization that works to spark environmental change in Latinx communities to help their kids by targeting the air-fouling diesel school buses their children ride each day.... Read more»
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Posted Oct 25, 2021, 11:34 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
A new report by the Arizona Public Health Association found that COVID-19 was the leading cause of death in Arizona during the pandemic, unlike in other similar states that had more aggressive mitigation measures. ... Read more»
Posted Oct 11, 2021, 7:59 am
Ulysse Bex
/Cronkite News
COVID-19 vaccinations have saved an estimated 1,000 lives in Arizona and have prevented as many as 2,800 hospitalizations for the disease, according to recent estimates from the Department of Health and Human Services. ... Read more»
Posted Sep 30, 2021, 12:24 am
Diannie Chavez
/Cronkite News
The Arizona Department of Health Services said there had been 19,959 deaths as of Wednesday, with the state averaging 40 to 50 deaths a day in recent weeks, and close to three-fourths of those deaths have been to people age 65 and older.... Read more»
Posted Sep 14, 2021, 10:34 am
Sara Edwards
/Cronkite News
A coalition of Arizona educators and parents is asking a Superior Court judge to scrap the Legislature’s ban on school mask mandates before it takes effect on Sept. 29.... Read more»
Posted Sep 10, 2021, 4:42 am
Diannie Chavez & Simon Williams/Cronkite News
Gov. Doug Ducey’s threat to withhold funding from schools that impose mask mandates took a severe hit Thursday, when the White House said local school districts can apply directly to the federal government “to restore funding withheld by state leaders.” ... Read more»
Posted Sep 8, 2021, 8:30 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
A recent poll shows a strong majority of Arizona voters — but only a small fraction of Republicans — support face mask mandates and vaccine requirements in schools and government buildings to combat the spread of COVID-19.... Read more»
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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 Aug 23, 2021, 7:30 am
Diannie Chavez
/Cronkite News
Arizona is on pace to record its 1 millionth COVID-19 infection within the week, and health experts fear that kids in schools and the looming Labor Day holiday will only make matters worse. ... Read more»
Posted Jul 28, 2021, 10:02 am
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona health officials will update guidance to follow new recommendations from the CDC urging people, including those who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, to wear masks in enclosed public spaces - though they remain voluntary due to new state laws prohibiting mandates. ... Read more»
Posted Jul 19, 2021, 12:25 pm
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
Arizona had been seeing a decline in COVID-19 cases but new data is showing that cases are continuing to rise, with 11 of the state’s 15 counties having “substantial” spread and the state increasing its number of cases for five consecutive weeks as hospital capacity continues to be strained. ... Read more»