The new year brings a new surge of COVID-19, this time driven by the Omicron variant which researchers regard somewhat optimistically. Even still, schools are gearing up for a staff shortage as the governor and school administrators vow there won't be school closures. Additionally, the Arizona Department of Health Services released a...
There were 373 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Arizona on Wednesday and a total of four new deaths related to COVID-19. On Tuesday, the state passed the 18,000 marker for total deaths. The 17,000 death benchmark was passed on April 7. In terms of vaccinations, 49.9% of the state has been vaccinated against COVID-19. 9% of intensive...
Alignment Healthcare, a Medicare Advantage company, announced the expansion of its award-winning health plans into Arizona in 2022 - which will reach 1 million Medicare-eligible seniors.
The expansion will extend the company’s senior-first model to Arizona’s significant senior population.
Rajesh Shrestha, president, new markets...Arizona News
There were 540 new cases of COVID-19 reported in Arizona today, bringing the state total to 874,605. There were 17 new COVID-19 related deaths, the state total is at 17,497. 44.1% of Arizonans have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
This information comes from the Arizona Department of Health Services COVID-19 data...Open
Arizona has now administered 4,631,928 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine of the 6 million doses delivered. 38.2% of Arizona residents have received at least one dose. Nationwide, 26.4% of people are vaccinated and 215,951,909 doses have been administered.
This information comes from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...Arizona News
Arizona has received 4.3 million doses of vaccine from the federal distribution allotment as of March 31. 3.5 million, or 80.5% of those doses have been administered to Arizona residents. To-date, 24% of the state has been fully vaccinated.
This information comes from the Bloomberg Vaccine Data Tracker and the Centers for Disease...
As of Wednesday, March 24, the United States has administered doses to 20% of the population. The Arizona numbers match, as 20% of the population has been vaccinated and three million doses have been used. That's 80.6% of the 3.7 million doses delivered.
This information comes courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Arizona’s vaccine rollout is full steam ahead, with state officials encouraging enrollment. Rural areas are slower to receive vaccines needed. University of Arizona is beginning vaccination of Phase 1B recipients. Arizona Department of Health Services (ADHS) announced Arizona has reached 300,000 vaccinations on January 20.
The...Arizona News
As cases hit record highs nationwide and hospitals both local and national warn of looming overcrowding in intensive care units, local hospital officials are speaking out about travel for the holidays and individual responsibility. Meanwhile, there’s been significant progress on treatment and vaccine in the past couple weeks, and...Arizona News
This week there’s good news and bad news in Arizona and across the country as COVID-19 positivity rates are on an uptick and experts openly predict a “dark winter”. The Navajo Nation and Pima County are reporting troubling spikes as ICU bed use steadily increases statewide. But new treatments are slowly becoming available and the...Arizona News
After weeks in 51st place for testing nationally after every other state and the District of Columbia, Arizona began a “testing blitz” that took place across the state last Saturday. Despite the statewide goal of 20,000 tests, the testing sites reported low turnout numbers in some places and in others, patients were turned...Arizona News
On Jan. 17, Pima County and the City of Tucson filed lawsuits in Pima County Superior Court for the drugmakers' role in the opioid crisis. The municipal and county duo are the latest to sue the firms, including the Arizona-based Insys Therapeutics; more than 1,500 local and state governments have filed complaints against drug...Arizona News
Maricopa isn't the only county seeing more choice in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchanges this year; Pima County residents have their choice from three health plans, an abundance compared to last year's singular choice, Ambetter from Health Net.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona (BCBSAZ) along with Bright Health will be joining...Arizona News
The marketplace is unique in several ways in Pima County.
Local residents should expect lower premium increases and more choice than they had for coverage in 2017.
The enrollment period, which ends at midnight Dec. 15, is half the length of what it was last year, and federal dollars to market it have been slashed. Healthcare.gov is...Arizona News
Major health care providers come together to ensure consumers take advantage of available marketplace coverage.
This fifth open enrollment for the Healthcare.gov individual marketplace faces hurdles for consumers put in place by the Trump administration. Shortened enrollment period, markedly reduced outreach funding, periods when the...
