Phoenix New Times' weekly pandemic roundup features Arizona's Latino lag for vaccinations, how the state only just began offering vaccine info in Spanish, and what wastewater tests showed at City Hall. As of February 16, more than 799,000 Arizonans have contracted COVID-19 and more than 14,980 have died as a result.
COVID-19 variant the wild card as Arizona comes down from latest surge
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There are emerging variants of COVID-19 â like in the U.K. and South Africa - which the lab is now in the process of getting, to begin testing on those.
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PHOENIX â As hospital metrics continue to improve in Arizona, doctors are bracing for how emerging coronavirus variants could affect cases and hospitalizations in the coming weeks. It s a day-to-day thing, said Dr. Frank LoVecchio, an emergency physician in the Valley. You re trying to predict staffing, you re trying to predict beds, everything, based upon yesterday s data.
Where are the available ICU beds in Arizona?
The Arizona Department of Health Services reported the fewest number of available ICU beds statewide Thursday since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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PHOENIX â The Arizona Department of Health Services reported the fewest number of available ICU beds statewide Thursday since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic.
According to the state s coronavirus dashboard, 140, or 8%, of ICU beds remain available statewide. However, where those beds are located is information that has not been released publicly by the state.
ABC15 continues to hear from health officials and frontline workers who say there are few - if any - available ICU beds at their facilities. Detailed information on where some available beds are located is seemingly easier to obtain at the local level than the state level, despite the information being reported to the Department of Health Services.
Valley health experts answer COVID-19 vaccine questions in ABC15 town hall
Health experts are answering your questions Tuesday.
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PHOENIX â The first doses of Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Arizona Monday, with the state expecting to have around 58,500 doses split between Maricopa and Pima counties first.
That arrival will be followed by several more shipments of the vaccine from Pfizer and Moderna coming in through the next week.
As our state starts to receive the much-anticipated vaccine, we know Arizona residents still have questions over safety, how the vaccine will be rolled out, and when can the general public really expect to receive it.