COVID-19 Vaccinations Are Coming for Ages 5-11: Here’s What You Need to Know
Nearly all Arizona children ages 5 to 11 are vaccinated against measles, diphtheria, whooping cough, rubella, mumps, polio, and other diseases that have been eliminated or all but eliminated thanks to modern medicine. Soon, COVID-19 will become the next disease with a safe and highly effective vaccine available to children in this age group. In addition, the COVID-19 vaccine is [...]
A New Resource to Connect COVID-19 Patients With Monoclonal Antibody Treatments
Your best protection against COVID-19 is getting one of the safe, free, and highly effective vaccines that are widely available around Arizona. Vaccination helps prevent severe illness, hospitalization, and death from COVID-19 while helping preserve healthcare capacity for others who need it. Complementing the state’s push for vaccination are monoclonal antibody treatments approved for emergency use by the U.S. Food [...]
CDC offers a new view on how vaccination dramatically reduces COVID-19 risk
Last month, we shared a new way the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) looks at the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines in light of rare breakthrough cases. This approach examines the difference between unvaccinated and fully vaccinated individuals when it comes to COVID-19 cases and deaths. It uses rates of an outcome among each group to develop a ratio [...]
Using the COVID-19 Data Dashboard – Helpful Hints
With the recent announcement of our COVID-19 dashboard enhancements, I’d like to share some tips and tricks for getting the most out of the dashboard. Our amazing dashboard team has created the ability to view the data in all kinds of different ways, some of which I’ll summarize below. Summary page You can now go straight from the Summary page [...]
Much of COVID-19 Data Dashboard Won’t Refresh Oct. 17-18 Due to System Update
I’m grateful that so many people rely on our data dashboard for daily updates on the status of COVID-19 and vaccinations in Arizona. As the dashboard upgrades we made this week show, we are constantly looking for ways to make our data more valuable for all. With that goal in mind, additional system updates we’ll be making over the weekend [...]
We’ve Made Upgrades to the COVID-19 Data Dashboard
Our talented data visualization team launched the ADHS COVID-19 data dashboard over 18 months ago to rapidly share data about the COVID-19 pandemic. Since its launch, the dashboard has received an A-Plus rating from The COVID Tracking Project and undergone several enhancements to add new elements. Today, we’re excited to announce a number of upgrades. One of the biggest changes [...]