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Health Expert: Arizona Needs More Data In Vaccine Rollout

Coronavirus caseloads are back down, but death totals remain high in Arizona. After reporting more than 4,000 cases Feb. 9, state health officials added 1,977 new infections around the state Feb. 10, and 176 new fatalities to its daily dashboard. After mounting pressure from public health experts and news organizations, the state created a dashboard Feb. 10 showing some of the data about how it s dispensing vaccinations. And Pima County is getting its first 24-hour vaccination site. For more about those developments and all things COVID-19, The Show spoke with Dr. Shad Marvasti, the director of Public Health, Prevention and Health Promotion at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix.

Chandana Shekar, MD

January 28, 2021 Chandana Shekar, MD, is a second-year general cardiology fellow at the University of Arizona College of Medicine (Phoenix, AZ). She completed medical school at J.S.S. Medical College (Mysore, India), and then came to the United States to complete internal medicine residency at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine (Farmington, CT), and completed an advanced cardiac imaging/cardiac CT fellowship at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (Torrance, CA). Shekar has co-authored more than a dozen research papers published in peer-reviewed journals and has presented more than 50 posters at medical conferences worldwide. She plans to pursue an academic career in preventive cardiology and cardiac imaging.

Family urges more COVID-19 patients to look into a little-known therapy

Family urges more COVID-19 patients to look into a little-known therapy     PHOENIX (KPHO/KTVK) Monoclonal antibody therapy can dramatically reduce the need for hospitalization from COVID-19 in some of the most at-risk populations, but only about a quarter of the doses that were shipped to hospitals across the country has been used. The drug may have been the difference between life and death for an Ahwatukee family. Three members were infected. Two received the therapy and survived. One did not, and he died. “Every inch of me thinks and knows that that treatment saved my life and my son’s life,” said Maureen Goldhair, who is my mother-in-law.

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