Test percent positivity remained high, with 28% of tests reported positive for the week of June 26, the highest it's been since January.
on March 30. State health officials said hospitals are no longer required to report some COVID-19 surveillance data to the state, meaning certain graphs showing weekly hospitalization levels for the disease and bed usage by COVID-19 patients are no longer updated.
The COVID-19 virus' disproportionate impact on older adults, who are also more likely to have a booster dose, could help explain why a higher percentage of people who were fully vaccinated and boosted died of COVID-19 in April than those who were fully vaccinated and not boosted. The after several months. But the precise explanation for those percentages of deaths is unclear.
Unvaccinated people 12 and older in Arizona had a 1.8 times greater risk of testing positive for COVID-19, 8 times greater risk of hospitalization from COVID-19 and 21 times greater risk of dying from COVID-19 in May compared with fully vaccinated people with a booster, according to a state analysis.
For most of December, Arizona's percent positivity for COVID-19 testing was at 11%-13%, before rising to 22% for the week of Dec. 26, 29% for the week of Jan. 2, 32% for the week of Jan. 9, 34% for the week of Jan. 16, 29% for the week of Jan. 23, 22% for the week of Jan. 30, 16% for the week of Feb. 6, 11% for the week of Feb. 13, 7% for the week of Feb. 20, 4% for the week of Feb.
The COVID-19 death rate in Arizona since the pandemic began is 419 deaths per 100,000 people as of Tuesday, according to the CDC, putting it third in the country in a state ranking that separates New York City from New York state. The U.S. average is 305 deaths per 100,000 people as of Tuesday, New York City has the highest death rate, at 485 deaths per 100,000 people, followed by Mississippi at 420.
Arizona's rate of fully vaccinated people out of the total population was 62.4%, which was behind the national rate of 66.9%, Out of people ages 5 and older, 66.3% of those in Arizona were fully vaccinated, compared with 71.2% at the national level, CDC data shows.
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