Dr Cara Christ s last day as Arizona health director is Friday statesman.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from statesman.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Banner Health, Arizona s largest private employer and largest health care system, as well as HonorHealth announced last week that their employees would be required to get the vaccine.
Retired nurse Diane Saylors, 67, expressed her concern that those decisions would prompt smaller health care organizations to follow suit.
Saylors said she anticipates a slew of wrongful termination cases if companies fire employees who refuse the vaccine. It is an experimental thing, it has not been FDA-approved and they want to force this on people, she said.
The Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines in use in Arizona have been thoroughly studied, reviewed and approved for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
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Arizona is in another surge of COVID-19, a leading Arizona State University disease expert said Wednesday.
The ongoing major wave of COVID-19 cases in Arizona most likely will look different from the previous surges that the state experienced, said Dr. Joshua LaBaer, executive director of the Biodesign Institute at ASU. We are in a surge, he said. We can t say that this surge will behave like all the other surges because there s just so much different about this one. . All the previous surges that we observed were in a population that was largely unvaccinated.
Most significantly, there probably will be fewer hospitalizations and fewer deaths than the first two waves of COVID-19 in Arizona because so many people have been vaccinated, he told reporters during a virtual briefing.
Arizona s COVID-19 surge is led by a selfish unvaccinated scourge azcentral.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from azcentral.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.