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Peoria boy recovering from rare COVID-19 symptom
As the number of new COVID-19 cases continue to remain high, more children are experiencing a rare and potentially life-threatening symptom. FOX 10's Nicole Garcia reports.
PHOENIX (AP) - As the holiday weekend winds down, Arizona health officials are reporting 2,274 new COVID-19 cases and five new deaths.
The state Department of Public Health Services released the latest virus figures Sunday, which now have Arizona at a total of 1,264,848 cases and 22,229 deaths.
There were 2,564 people hospitalized due to COVID-19 as of Saturday. That’s below from the current surge’s peak of 2,574 on Tuesday but up from the 2,500 hospitalizations reported as of Thursday.
Public health experts worry about a major rise in cases and hospitalizations in the weeks following Thanksgiving, where more people with mixed vaccination status gathered indoors.
According to Johns Hopkins University data, Arizona’s seven-day rolling average of daily new cases rose over the past two weeks, increasing from 3,494.7 on Nov. 12 to 3,681.9 on Friday.
The state’s rolling average of daily deaths rose during from 36 to 41.6 during the same period.
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