States and health systems across the country are reacting to updated COVID-19 vaccine guidance from the Food and Drug Administration that narrowed the recommendation to only Americans 65 and older or those with high-risk health conditions.
Some Arizonans are facing practical difficulties with obtaining a prescription for the vaccine....Arizona News
As school begins and winter looms, many are finding it difficult to parse the confusing new guidance from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the COVID-19 vaccine. Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) moved to rescind emergency use authorizations (EUAs) for COVID-19 vaccines and restricted full approval to...
Last week, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would no longer recommend COVID-19 vaccine booster shots to pregnant women and healthy children.
The announcement appears to be a unilateral decision by the Secretary, but was supported by...
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...
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...
This week, Arizona COVID-19 levels remain the same, HHS pledges to offer monoclonal antibody treatments to the uninsured and the CDC no longer recommends universal masking in healthcare settings.
There were 3,402 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Arizona over the past week and 44 deaths related to the coronavirus. This amounts to...
On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration authorize the first subvariant-specific "redesign" of the COVID-19 vaccine, with the rollout projected to begin as early as next week.
Each day, the U.S. records an average of 90,000 new infections of COVID-19 and 475 new deaths, largely driven by the COVID-19 Omicron subvariants BA.4 and...
COVID-19 cases in Arizona appear to be falling for the first week in over a month, and new detection tactics are being assessed to determine spread without relying on individuals self-reporting positive at-home tests.
The Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) COVID-19 data dashboard marked 13,501 new cases over the past week...
Three Arizona counties are reporting high community transmission levels of COVID-19 this week and despite the Food and Drug Administration's authorization and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) recommendation that children between 6-months and 5-years-old receive the COVID-19 vaccine, Arizona parents have been slow to...
COVID-19 is still present in Arizona and cases are rapidly rising while Governor Doug Ducey signs a number of anti-public health bills into law preventing any public COVID prevention policies from implementation.
The New York Times COVID Tracker reports that Arizona cases of COVID-19 are up 84% in the past two weeks and the Arizona...
According to USA Today, The United States of America represented 16% of the world deaths, while only representing 4% of the world population. Of countries with at least 5 million cases, the US is third in deaths per 1000 at 303. "First" on the list is Brazil with 313 and next is Poland with 307. Canada had 105 deaths per thousand and...
With cases of COVID-19 back on the rise in Arizona and across the country, epidemiologists and experts are asking if yet another Omicron surge looms on the horizon.
In Arizona, nearly 5,500 new cases were recorded over the past week. There were 41 new deaths related to COVID-19 in Arizona, bringing the state total to 30,320. These...
Throughout April, COVID-19 levels remained low but appear to be trending upward once again. The Food and Drug Administration has scheduled meetings on COVID-19 vaccinations for children 5-years and younger.
The Arizona Department of Health Services reported 3,911 new cases of COVID-19 and 238 new deaths related to COVID-19 in Arizona...
The Arizona State Legislature is back to work this week following an extended period of budget negotiations. The theme of this legislative session overall has centered on education, and a number of healthcare bills that saw action this week have to do with education.
On Wednesday, the House Appropriations Committee weighed a potential...
Throughout the pandemic, parents of young children have received conflicting messages. Until the surge in cases related to the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, children appeared to have relatively low levels of serious illness caused by COVID-19.
This low risk, as well as the national scrutiny of vaccine effectiveness and side effects,...
Arizona officially has the distinction of ranking second nationally for COVID deaths per capita, currently trailing Mississippi. The state has now surpassed 26,000 COVID-19 deaths and is averaging nearly 14,000 new cases per day. On Wednesday, there were 24 new COVID-19 related deaths and 8,329 new cases reported.
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Hospitalizations for COVID-19 remain at an all-time high while cases in major cities across the country begin to fall. This begs the question: how long should Arizona expect to continue the surge related to the Omicron variant, and will strained hospitals be able to continue?
On Wednesday, January 26, the Arizona Department of Health...
