Health

A few days after she got home from Colorado, she started feeling achy and developed a fever and the chills.

The airport’s businesses are struggling mightily, too.

“I don’t want to make criminals out of people who are just trying to keep their business from going under,” said Pinal County’s Mark Lamb.

“Physical distancing is working,” Governor Doug Ducey said Wednesday. “We’re slowing the spread. We’ve made significant progress and can’t let up.”

Phoenix City Council member Carlos Garcia is one the organization’s eight board members, but wasn’t named in the lawsuit.

Merita Kraya may be the first Arizonan to be prosecuted for failing to adhere to emergency coronavirus rules.

For someone with COVID-19, any kind of delayed immune response can be catastrophic.

“People are going to suffer for another week unnecessarily,” said Will Humble, director of the Arizona Public Health Association.

“If the government would have put a better awareness campaign out there, they might have still been around.”

“Come prepared for a traffic jam in Phoenix! We WANT gridlock!” an organizer for Operation Gridlock Arizona wrote on Facebook.

“Hotels we approach are okay to help until they find out who we want to help, and then they back out.”

Law enforcement took calls about parties, open businesses, and park violations over Easter weekend.

An industry with a toxic legacy is using a public health crisis to seek $150 million in federal funds.

“I liken what I do to sitting behind the controls of an airplane during its flight.”

“It’s 80 degrees out here,” the officer responds. “It’s not hot.”

The suspension of elective surgeries has led to plummeting revenues.

In Coconino County, 61 percent of COVID-19 cases are in tribal communities.

“They said my symptoms were not severe, so I didn’t need to get tested,” James recalled. “But what if I’m a carrier?”

Since its founding in mid-March, Neighbors Helping Neighbors has brought new moms baby formula, diapers, and wipes.

Employees are told to self-monitor for COVID-19. If they contract the virus, paid sick leave is nearly impossible to get, they said.

“Mounting evidence indicates that social distancing, including the current stay-at-home order, is slowing the spread of new infections.”

“Both inmates are receiving appropriate medical care at their current locations,” the Arizona Department of Corrections said.