Pima County residents ages 65 and over will be able to pre-register for COVID-19 vaccine appointments starting 9 a.m., Thursday, the Pima County Health Department announced Tuesday.
With 1,315 new cases reported today, the total number of Arizonaâs confirmed novel coronavirus cases topped 801,000 as of Wednesday, Feb. 17, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services.
Pima County, which reported 188 new cases today, has seen 107,401 of the stateâs 801,055 confirmed cases.
A total of 15,063 Arizonans have died after contracting COVID-19, including 2,082 deaths in Pima County, according to the Feb. 17 report.
The number of hospitalized COVID cases statewide has declined in recent weeks, with 1,941 coronavirus patients in the hospital as of Feb. 16. Thatâs fewer than half the number who were hospitalized at the peak of the winter surge, which reached 5,082 on Jan. 11. The summer peak was 3,517, which was set on July 13, 2020. The subsequent lowest number of hospitalized COVID patients was 468, set on Sept. 27, 2020.
The state of Colorado s current COVID-19 vaccine distribution plan.
STEAMBOAT SPRINGS After weeks of just a few hundred doses of coveted COVID-19 vaccine trickling in to a handful of Routt County entities, the allocation skyrocketed this week.
“We received a large supply of vaccines this week,” Routt County Chief Medical Officer Dr. Brian Harrington said during Wednesday’s Board of Health meeting.
UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center alone received 1,075 doses, 600 of which were made available to people 70 and older during clinics held Wednesday and Thursday. The local hospital is holding vaccine clinics every day this week with each day separated as either a first-dose or second-dose clinic.
Registration opened for priority groups in phase 1B of COVID-19 vaccine rollouts Thursday, but according to the Pima County Health Department, all available appointments aimed at the 75+ population at the two Banner-operated vaccination sites and Tucson Medical Center have been âaccounted for through the registration process,â according to a press release from the health department.
More than 20,000 residents registered for appointments within the first two hours of the registration websiteâs opening, the release said.
The health department recognized this is âcausing frustrationâ for those still trying to receive appointments through the countyâs registration website, but said more appointments will be made available as it receives more allocated vaccine doses from the state.
With more than 11,000 new cases reported today, the number of Arizona’s confirmed novel coronavirus cases topped 658,000 as of Friday, Jan 15, according to the Arizona Department of Health