Arizona’s dramatic increase in confirmed COVID-19 cases—more than three times as many as a month ago—has hospitals concerned about staffing and capacity with at least one health care organization holding off on scheduling new elective surgeries. New advancements in testing being developed at Arizona State University and the University of Arizona will help expand availability, but as demand is rising now waits for tests and results are growing. And there have been a few reported Arizona cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, a rare illness potentially linked with COVID-19.
Arizona hospitals may soon reach capacity, expert warns / KJZZ
Valley hospital network puts brakes on elective surgeries as coronavirus fills beds statewide / 12 News
Tucson’s hospitals managing a health-care crisis as beds fill, patient transfers increase / Arizona Daily Star
ICUs at hospitals across Tucson are filling up with coronavirus patients / Arizona Daily Star
Maricopa County public health officials: More than one-third of all cases have been confirmed in past week alone / Arizona Republic
Valley businesses can access COVID-19 testing by partnering with ASU / Phoenix Business Journal
UA-invented device delivers COVID-19 results in minutes / Arizona Daily Star
Arizona ‘overwhelmed’ with demand for tests as U.S. system shows strain / New York Times
Coronavirus testing: Waits grow as demand rises, supplies run short in Phoenix area / Arizona Republic
‘It’s as if the foot is on the accelerator’ — Arizona continues to see rise in COVID-19 cases / KJZZ
COVID-related inflammatory illness strikes Arizona children / Arizona Republic
Arizona sees cases of coronavirus-linked inflammatory condition in children / Fox News
Getting Answers: How COVID-19 could affect the lungs / KVOA
What do AZ hospital CEOs say about COVID-19 response? / ABC 15
Valley doctors and nurses on frontlines say more help is needed in hospitals / azfamily.com
Doctors talk about the COVID-19 ‘beast’: ‘I don’t even know how to tell you how our hearts break’ / Arizona Republic
Banner nurses in Colorado help Phoenix hospital with COVID-19 cases / 12 News
Refugees sewing masks for health care workers / KOLD
As student athletes return, how University of Arizona plans to keep campus safe from COVID-19 / KJZZ
How testing and tracing can help combat COVID-19 / Arizona Public Media
Former Arizona epidemiologist says virus may not be containable / azfamily.com
$100M Creighton University Phoenix campus marks ‘topping out’ / AZ Big Media
Creighton University’s new $100 million, 180,000-square-foot Health Sciences–Phoenix Campus at Park Central reached a major construction milestone earlier this month as work continues on-schedule on the new building set to be completed in 2021.
Healing lungs, improving data, oncology research and more / Inside Tucson Business
Tucson-based Aqualung Therapeutics recently secured a $2.3 million award from the National Institutes of Health to develop therapeutic antibodies for patients with radiation-induced lung injury.