Medical experts say there’s now no question Arizona is seeing an upward trend in COVID-19 infections. Arizona is now averaging more than 1,000 cases per day, more than double what the state was reporting a month ago.
“It’s hard for us in our modeling groups to understand how long this next wave might last or how bad it might get, but it looks like the start of another major or significant wave,” said Dr. Joe Gerald with the University of Arizona s Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.
Gerald said new cases in Arizona are on the kind of upward trajectory the state has only seen before the big surges last winter and summer. With about half of the state s population now vaccinated, Gerald doesn’t expect this surge to be as severe as the previous one, but said that’s hard to predict.
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The Doctor Is In-For Now.
By Chris Limberis
IT WAS IN the depths of Pima County that Dr. Richard Carmona,
the czar of the county s health system who has presided over a
$14 million loss in the last year, made a surprising offer to
his chief political benefactor, Democratic Supervisor Raul Grijalva. In the county s subterranean garage, Carmona told Grijalva the
conduit in the increasingly volatile relationship Carmona has
with Sylvia Campoy, who heads the county s health care commission that
he would step down from his $190,500-a-year job. There, near the county s bottom, 12 floors beneath the perch
that Grijalva has held for 11 years, Carmona says he told Grijalva: