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Arizona reports 8,715 additional COVID-19 cases, 208 deaths

State retains its worst-in-the-nation infection diagnosis rate

Two Restaurants

We check in with two family-owned Tucson staples to see how they adapted and coped during a difficult year. (06:08)
Downtown Tucson, Oct, 23, 2019.

News roundup: Vaccine rollout expands with high demand, Ducey proposes annual budget and discusses new legislative session

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Jan. 15.
The steps outside the Supreme Court in Washington, DC.

Supreme Court to hear case on pandemic aid for tribes

The confusion on if Alaska Native Corporations qualify for the aid lies with some ambiguous language in the CARES Act.
People are urged to take a flu shot and the anti-COVID vaccine.

News roundup: County enters next vaccine phase, health officials push for more COVID safety measures

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Jan. 14.
A sign outside Banner - University Medicine North in Tucson for the hospital's COVID-19 vaccine distribution site. Dec. 17, 2020.

Pima County moves to Prioritized 1B for COVID-19 vaccines

More than 20,000 people signed up in a couple hours today.
A health care worker holds a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination event at Banner - University Medicine North on Dec. 17, 2020.

Arizona to open 2nd state-run COVID-19 vaccination site

New vaccine eligibility coming next week for additional older Arizona residents
Dr. Christian Bime, medical director of the ICU at Banner - UMC Tucson, receives a dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Dec. 17, 2020.

Pima County readies COVID-19 vaccine expansion

The county is preparing four additional vaccine sites.
A handout image from Banner Health shows a health care worker in one of the hospital's COVID-19 units.

Possibility of COVID-19 triage care looms over Arizona hospitals

Physicians believe at least 1 in 10 people in Arizona is infected with the virus
Clinical officials of five Arizona Health care organizations conduct a virtual news conference on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic January 13, 2021 in Phoenix. Pictured are (left to right) Dr. Marjorie Bessel, Chief Clinical Officer, Banner Health; Dr. Alyssa Chapital, Hospital Medical Director, Mayo Clinic; Dr. Michael White, Executive Vice President, Chief Clinical Officer, Valleywise Health; Dr. Keith Frey, Chief Medical Officer - Arizona Division, Dignity Health; and Dr. Stephanie Jackson, Senior Vice President, Chief Clinical Value Officer, HonorHealth.

Hospital Officials push for mask mandate, remote learning.

Five clinical officials push back against Ducey's approach.
Downtown Tucson, Oct. 23, 2019.

News roundup: AZ hospitals consider triage, land swap of Oak Flat approaches

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Jan. 13.
People are urged to take a flu shot and the anti-COVID vaccine.

Flu and COVID running together in 2021

Doctors say the good news is flu cases are down sharply.
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S.

Arizona reports 5,269 additional COVID-19 cases, 191 deaths

Arizona had the worst state COVID-19 diagnosis rate over the past week
Downtown Tucson, Oct, 23, 2019.

News roundup: Tucson nurses fight for better conditions, daily death toll again breaks record

Recent coverage impacting Southern Arizona, Jan. 12.
A Centers for Disease Control illustration of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

Arizona sets virus deaths record, hospitalizations top 5,000

Virus surge shows no signs of slowing
The University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, has a retractable roof.

Arizona stadium opens as mass vaccination site as cases soar

Hospitals struggle to meet the demand of COVID-19 patients

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