Pinal West Nile cases more than quadruple this year
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A nurse administers the Moderna coronavirus vaccine. Photo by Bob McGovern
Good news prevailed in this week’s COVID-19 virus reporting issued by Pinal County Public Health. There were only 52 new cases in the county in the week ending Friday, Feb. 26 and just 11 hospitalizations and one fatality. The county’s positivity rate dropped to 14.1 percent.
This marked the fourth consecutive week in which the county’s number of cases has declined, and the fifth in the past six weeks. The county has now administered a total of 75,462 doses of the Moderna vaccine, which includes both first and second doses. The county still is vaccinating only those in the 1-A and 1-B1 groups, which include health care professionals, EMS and paramedics; long-term care residents; essential workers and infrastructure workers, including law enforcement, corrections officers, educators, food and agricultural workers, utility and transportation workers,
Storm delays COVID-19 vaccine shipments, thousands of appointments could be postponed in southern Arizona
KMSB 9-10 p.m. recurring (FROM SB) - clipped version By Hannah Tiede | February 17, 2021 at 11:30 PM MST - Updated February 18 at 5:35 AM
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) -Winter storms are creating a vaccine whiteout - at least, temporarily. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention expects “widespread delays” in COVID-19 vaccine deliveries in the coming days due to severe weather sweeping across much of the U.S.
All of Arizona’s vaccine shipments scheduled for this week are delayed. That’s roughly 86,000 Pfizer doses and 91,000 Moderna doses. A spokesperson for the Arizona Department of Health Services says the sites in Maricopa and Pima counties administering the Pfizer vaccine should have enough doses on hand to continue operations.