Arizona Republic
Her first symptoms a scratchy throat and cough were so mild that Jannie Cox totally blew them off on Dec. 27, when they first emerged.
Three days later, the 74-year-old Tucson resident could no longer deny it: She was sick.
Her throat had become fiercely sore, she had flu-like body aches, and it was clear she was either catching a cold, or worse. That same day, she tested positive for COVID-19 infection and her husband, 75-year-old David Syverson, was developing symptoms, too.
Cox, a retired health care foundation executive, knew what she wanted for herself and her husband: an intravenous infusion of a relatively new treatment therapy for outpatients with mild to moderate COVID-19 called monoclonal antibodies.
Through the fourth quarter of 2020, businesses in Benson received $4.1 million in health-related relief from the CARES act issued by the Department of Health and Human Services.
According to numbers reported through the fourth quarter of 2020, businesses in Arizona received $1.5 billion in health-related relief from the CARES act issued by the Department of Health and Human Services. The largest recipient of funding in the state was Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix with a total of $80.6 million. The average loan size in the city was $368,436 while the state s average loan amount was $194,289.
Of the money distributed, $30 billion went out automatically to health providers based on previous year medicare payments. If the money wasn t returned within 90 days the provider is then automatically entered into the repayment terms that are issued by HHS. With the money going out automatically and the rules constantly changing, some of the businesses that received the money weren t
Through the fourth quarter of 2020, businesses in Ajo received $756,201 in health-related relief from the CARES act issued by the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Just 7% of the state s hospital beds were available as of Friday morning. A refrigerated truck is being used as a makeshift morgue at Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix because of an accelerated pace of COVID-19 deaths.
Hospitals in Arizona face serious staffing shortages, and health officials and major medical groups are calling on Gov. Doug Ducey to take more aggressive action.
The current surge of COVID-19 is the greatest strain on Arizona hospitals statewide in recent history, said Ann-Marie Alameddin, president and CEO of the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association.
Dr. Marjorie Bessel, chief clinical officer for Banner Health, said, Nearly half of the patients currently being cared for in our hospitals are there because of a disease that did not even exist last year.