A clinician cares for a COVID-19 patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Providence St. Louis Medical Center. Mary amid an increase in COVID-19 patients in Southern California on December 23, 2020 in Apple Valley, California. (Photo by Mario Tama / Getty Images)
This is a regularly updated story with the latest information about coronavirus and its impact in Arizona and not just for December 24, 2020.
PHOENIX – Arizona health officials reported 7,046 new coronavirus cases and 115 additional deaths on Thursday, while COVID-19 hospitalizations reached a new high again.
The state’s documented totals rose to 480,319 COVID-19 infections and 8,294 deaths, according to the Arizona Department of Health Services dashboard.
The daily reports present data on the case, death and testing after the state receives statistics and confirms them, which can remain for a few days or more. It is not the actual activity of the last 24 hours.
More COVID-19 values in Arizona remain at or near pandemic highs.
The number of patients admitted to the COVID-19 hospital confirmed or suspected rose to a historical level of 4,221 on Wednesday, the 11th daily record in the last 13 days.
The number of patients with COVID-19 in ICU state beds fell to 965, seven below the previous day’s record and third in number.
At the national level, patients suspected or confirmed by COVID-19 took over 50% of all inpatient beds, a record level and 54% of all ICU beds.
Overall, hospital beds were 92% full, and intensive care beds were 93% full. The state had 132 unused beds, up from a record 119 a day earlier.
Hospitalization data posted each morning is reported electronically the previous evening by 100 hospitals across the state, as required by the executive order.
The weekly positive percentage in Arizona for testing for the diagnosis of COVID-19, an indicator of the extent of the virus spreading in the community, was 23% through 29,603 tests for this week. If it holds up, it will break the 21% record for the week beginning June 28.
Official positivity rates are based on the time of sampling, not the time they are reported, so the percentage in recent weeks may fluctuate as laboratories are tested and the results are documented by the state.
The seven-day average continues for the recently reported cases of the health department was 6,293.43 on Wednesday, according to the follow-up made by The Associated Press, up from the previous day, but about 1,500 below the December 14 peak.
The seven-day average of new deaths reported by COVID-19 fell to 92.71 on Wednesday, down from a record high of 100.43 on Tuesday, but still the third-highest in history.
COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, has no impact on some and is severely debilitating or fatal to others. Asymptomatic infected people – which include, but are not limited to, cough, fever, and difficulty breathing – are able to spread the virus.
Information on test locations can be found on the Arizona Department of Health Services website.
Below are Thursday’s latest developments on the coronavirus pandemic across the country, country and world:
- House Republicans have dropped a Democratic bid to pass President Donald Trump’s long-running end-of-session $ 2,000 direct payments to most Americans as he ponders whether to sign a COVID-19 aid bill. a long time.
- Globally, there have been approximately 78.84 million COVID-19 cases and 1.73 million deaths since Thursday morning, according to research from Johns Hopkins University. The figures for the US were about 18.47 million cases and 326,000 deaths.