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...
Arizona experienced the fifth-largest drop in life expectancy in the country during the COVID-19 pandemic, and although cases have dropped this week, the surge of other winter-related airborne respiratory viruses have hospitals and over-the-counter medical supply distributors under increasing levels of stress.
On Monday, a coalition...
Arizona hospitals are buckling under the pressure of three coinciding surges in airborne illnesses COVID-19, influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). This "tripledemic" is elevating the need to raise vaccination rates for both COVID and the flu, as vaccinations in key areas remain low.
While lower than last week, there were...
