Arizona and COVID-19: Two-Year Experience 2020-21

By Dr. Howard J. Eng

Abstract:

It had been more than two-years since COVID-19 appeared in the world. The first case recorded in Arizona was on January 22, 2020. There had been three Arizona Reopening Phases. During Arizona’s Reopening Phase 2 winter surge in 2020, ABC and NBC News reported that the state has the highest new cases per capital in the world. Arizona is the sixth largest in size of the United States 50 states. It is about the same size as Italy. The study examined the first two-years of the state’s COVID-19 pandemic. There were 1,381,488 COVID-19 cases, 91,523 hospitalizations, 24,229 deaths, and 9,826,846 vaccine doses administered at the end of the second year (December 31, 2021). The state COVID-19 cases in 2021 were higher than in 2020. The second half of 2021 had higher case numbers than the first half, but it had lower hospitalization and death numbers. The lower numbers in the second half were primarily due to the use of COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics.