Three new COVID variants are driving the rise in COVID-19 cases across the country, with hospitalizations from the virus reaching its highest levels since April. Public health officials are encouraging the public to take the updated bivalent COVID booster when it is released in the fall, in addition to the updated vaccine against...
The coronavirus is back with a midsummer uptick in cases for the first time since the end of the public health emergency (PHE) in May.
The last full week of July logged 9,056 COVID-19 related hospitalizations at an increase of 12% week-over-week. Deaths related to COVID-19 have remained steady since early June, with 500-600 deaths...
A single shot of the bivalent booster will become the standard vaccination regimen for people seeking their first COVID-19 vaccination.
Only a single dose will be needed for most people, instead of the currently-recommended two doses. According to the Wall Street Journal, a second booster will be authorized for groups that are high...
Last Saturday marked the third anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a worldwide pandemic.
As the Arizona Republic points out in a retrospective, since that declaration, COVID-19 has killed more than 1.1 million Americans and 33,000 Arizonans.
There were 4,262 new cases of COVID-19 in Arizona this week with 56 new deaths related...
Maybe it was a lab leak after all? Or maybe not. This week the U.S. Energy Department announced that it determined that the COVID-19 pandemic most likely arise from a laboratory leak. Governor Katie Hobbs proclaims COVID-19 Memorial Day.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the announcement was made after a classified report was...
Arizona cases of COVID-19 are spiking again, heralding the long-awaited winter surge warned of by experts and epidemiologists. But vaccine uptake, especially of the new bivalent booster, remains low as experts cite "vaccine fatigue" among Americans.
Tucson Mayor Regina Romero has tested positive for COVID-19 and experiencing mild...
Following reported success of both the COVID-19 vaccine Comirnaty and the antiviral pill Paxlovid, Pfizer has announced that it will move forward on new vaccines to combat the coronavirus pandemic and influenza at the same time. Meanwhile, stakeholders are requesting an extension of the public health emergency declaration beyond its...
There will likely be a winter surge of COVID-19 in the next few months, but Americans aren't receiving the bivalent booster shot that targets Omicron variants.
The daily global COVID-19 infection rate is expected to rise by two million daily cases by February, according to an analysis from the University of Washington. Reuters notes...
American's aren't rushing to the pharmacy or their doctors' office to get the bivalent booster released last month, worrying experts as a potential winter surge of COVID-19 looms on the horizon.
According to the Wall Street Journal, fewer than 5% of Americans have received the updated COVID-19 shot in the month since it was released....
Nearly 200,000 Arizonans have now received the bivalent COVID-19 booster shots that are designed to specifically counter the Omicron subvariants of the virus, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized that the shots be extended to children as young as five years old.
In Arizona, cases are down for the first week...
COVID-19 cases have now plateaued at an unusually high level in Arizona, and research demonstrates that rural people of color were hit the hardest by the surge in cases related to the Omicron variant earlier this year. The Biden administration has announced that it has procured vaccines specifically designed to combat the BA.4 and BA.5...
