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Arizona tops 116,000 cases of COVID-19
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The Arizona Department of Health Services is reporting over 116,000 cases of COVID-19 as of Friday morning.
In Arizona, there are 116,892 cases and 2,082 deaths of the novel coronavirus, up 4,221 and 44 from Thursday morning, respectively.
Arizona is one of several states with over 100,000 cases. Arizona is the 14th most populous state in the nation.
The Maricopa County Department of Public Health reports 75,463 cases and 1,009 deaths in Arizona’s most populous county. State and county numbers differ depending on reporting times.
Maricopa County shows a case rate of 1,702 cases per 100,000 residents, using 2019 Census Bureau estimates. The state average is 1,605. Santa Cruz County has the highest at 4,587 cases per 100,000 residents.
The coronavirus causes mild or moderate symptoms such as fever and cough for most people.
But for some — especially older adults and people with existing health problems — it can cause more severe illness including pneumonia, and death.
Hospitals still have room, officials says
Ten days after state officials enacted a crisis plan for Arizona hospitals to deal with the ongoing COVID-19 public health crisis, local health care officials say they have not yet resorted to triaging patients.
On June 29, Dr. Cara Christ, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, announced her agency had enacted the state’s Crisis Standards of Care, a guide for health care providers on how to respond to a major health crisis.
Though the state’s crisis plan lays out the authority and procedures for triaging patients under those conditions, local hospitals still have enough capacity and don’t need to do so, at least not yet, according to Becky Armendariz, senior director of marketing and public relations for Banner Health.
Restaurants to operate below 50% capacity
Gov. Doug Ducey refused Thursday to reimpose his stay-at-home order even after conceding that hia own data shows how effective that was in curbing the spread of COVID-19.
At a press briefing, the governor acknowledged that the number of new cases each day pretty much stayed the same from the time he issued the directive in late March through the middle of May when he allowed it to expire. In fact, he said, the rate remained steady for about two weeks afterwards, the period of incubation and the time to get test results.
