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Severe shortages of public health workers to track disease spread helped fuel coronavirus spikes in states like Florida, Texas and Arizona and could make it harder to stamp out new hot spots.
U.S. Rep. Greg Stanton accused Maricopa County officials of failing to conduct proper contact tracing of residents infected with COVID-19.
In a letter to the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Stanton wrote that the county's top public health officials shunned models from health experts showing a far greater need for investigators than the county planned for.
The county wasted precious time during Gov. Doug Ducey's stay-at-home order and has now fallen behind while new cases in Maricopa County often eclipse more than 2,000 each day.
In the wake of George Floyd's murder, thousands of Arizonans and millions across the country called for swift action and real, meaningful change. Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 7120, the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, a bold, comprehensive approach to improve accountability and transparency in policing, combat police brutality, end racial profiling and fundamentally change the culture of law enforcement. Rep.
When workers at Pacific Seafood in Newport, Oregon, started testing positive for coronavirus, health officials knew what to do: They went searching for the Mam pastor.
He speaks only a few words of English and a little Spanish, but he's fluent in Mam, a Mayan language spoken in Guatemala that doesn't even have a written form. He's the main link to Oregon's Mam-speaking community, many of whose members work at Pacific Seafood and were caught up in the state's second-largest workplace outbreak.
"Arizona is the new national hotspot for COVID-19" tweeted Arizona Democratic Congressman Greg Stanton on June 14. The enormous rise of COVID cases and hospitalizations in the Grand Canyon State has put Arizona into the national and global spotlight as a case study of how not to handle a global pandemic.
Yesterday, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure advanced the Investing in a New Vision for the Environment and Surface Transportation in America (INVEST in America) Act, a plan to reauthorize national surface transportation funding and infrastructure investment. It would authorize nearly $500 billion over five years to address some of the nation's most urgent infrastructure needs. The bill now moves to the House floor.
The city is starting a process that could change two Phoenix street names long criticized as offensive and racist.
The Phoenix City Council is initiating a process to change the names of Robert E. Lee Street and Squaw Peak Drive in north Phoenix, Mayor Kate Gallego tweeted on Thursday.
PHOENIX - "Sold out" are words we have seen many times during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially on health essentials. Those same items have shown up online where re-sellers are charging well over regular price.
In just the last week, 5 months into the pandemic, hand sanitizer was still being sold for inflated prices online. It's called 'price-gouging' and there is no law to prevent it.
Rep. Greg Stanton today called for the governor to assign members of the Arizona National Guard to a new mission: Immediately support state and county efforts to contact trace the spread of COVID-19.