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Posted Feb 14, 2022, 7:32 am
Rose Wagner
/Courthouse News Service
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a study Friday that shows COVID-19 booster shots begin to become less effective against the Omicron variant after about four months but still provide substantial protection against hospitalization. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 19, 2022, 10:02 am
Kelsey Reichmann
/Courthouse News Service
As the Omicron variant surges and hospitals are pushed to capacity, the Biden administration announced a new program Wednesday to give 400 million nonsurgical N95 masks to Americans free of charge to help fight the COVID-19 pandemic. ... Read more»
Posted Jan 13, 2022, 11:37 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
As the Omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to spread like wildfire in Arizona and shatter previous records in the pandemic, health experts are pleading with people to vaccinate, mask up and socially distance themselves to reduce stress on the health care system.... Read more»
Posted Jan 4, 2022, 7:13 am
Jerod MacDonald-Evoy
/Arizona Mirror
The number of daily reported COVID-19 cases soared to more than 14,000 Monday - amid the surge of the Omicron variant - the second-most since the pandemic began, surpassed only by the 17,000 reported exactly one year ago. ... Read more»
Posted Dec 27, 2021, 6:09 am
Lauren Weber & Christina Jewett /Kaiser Health News
Throughout the pandemic, lawmakers from coast to coast have passed laws, declared emergency orders or activated state-of-emergency statutes that severely limited families’ ability to seek legal accountability on hospitals infection-control practices in COVID-related care.... Read more»
Posted Dec 8, 2021, 4:05 pm
Jim Small
/Arizona Mirror
A new report from state health officials found that unvaccinated Arizonans were nearly four times more likely to test positive for COVID-19 in October and were more than 15 times more likely to die from the illness than vaccinated people.... Read more»
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Posted Dec 8, 2021, 7:17 am
Aallyah Wright
/Stateline
As hospitals across the country are struggling to stay afloat amid the coronavirus pandemic, some have had to cut or suspend obstetric services - but at least 8 states, including Arizona, have passed laws expanding coverage for midwifery and doula services.... Read more»
Posted Nov 23, 2021, 10:45 am
JoNel Aleccia
/Kaiser Health News
The U.S. could soon have access to a new antiviral pill expected to alter the deadly trajectory of the COVID-19 pandemic - but experts say the success of the treatments would hinge on whether high-risk infected patients will be able to get tested fast enough to make a difference.... Read more»
Posted Nov 18, 2021, 10:42 am
Michael Patton
/Cronkite News
As hospitalizations rise and the holidays approach, health officials concerned about a new wave of infections are urging Arizonans to take preventative measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 and seasonal influenza. ... Read more»
Posted Nov 3, 2021, 12:07 pm
Anna Maria Barry-Jester
/Kaiser Health News
Public health nurses, microbiologists, epidemiologists, health officers and others who fend off infectious diseases like tuberculosis and HIV, inspect restaurants and work to keep communities healthy are abandoning the field - a problem temporary boosts in funding can’t fix.... Read more»
Posted Oct 29, 2021, 12:22 pm
Cecelia Vieira
/FactCheck
The Federal Emergency Management Agency is deploying contracted medical workers to understaffed hospitals who are required to comply with COVID-19 vaccine mandates, despite false social media posts claiming the workers sent by FEMA are “exempt.”... Read more»
Posted Oct 28, 2021, 12:52 pm
Jordan Rau
/Kaiser Health News
The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program - created by the 2010 Affordable Care Act and the federal government’s effort to penalize hospitals for excessive patient readmissions - is ending its first decade with Medicare cutting payments to nearly half the nation’s hospitals.... Read more»
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Posted Oct 27, 2021, 11:02 am
Christine Vestal
/Stateline
Despite a severe nationwide shortage of registered nurses - and the unrelenting need in hospitals overrun with COVID-19 cases - much of the $500 million the American Rescue Plan Act set aside to bolster school-based health services will likely not be spent on fresh troops.... Read more»
Posted Oct 22, 2021, 10:55 am
Aallyah Wright
/Stateline
In the broadest sense, President Biden’s vaccine requirement for health care workers will alleviate the strain on health centers by boosting the country’s vaccination rate - but the story may be more complicated in rural America, where resistance to the vaccine remains strongest. ... Read more»
Posted Oct 14, 2021, 7:53 am
Olivia McCann
/Cronkite News
As Arizonans continue to get vaccinated, the number of COVID-19 cases in one major health system has tapered off; however, Valleywise Health continues to suffer a severe nursing shortage, and officials fear the coming deadline for employees to be vaccinated may make it worse.... 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»