School-based Testing is Important & Free: Get Your School With the Program!
Ideally we’d have a governor and health department director that support evidence-based interventions to prevent COVID-19 infections in K-12 schools while maximizing the chance for in-person instruction by supporting CDC’s Guidance for COVID-19 Prevention in K-12 Schools. Sadly, that’s not the deck that Arizona voters dealt us. We’ve been dealt a hand that includes a governor who is actively hostile toward universal indoor K-12 masking and a health director unwilling to
Weekly COVID Epidemiology & Hospital Capacity Update Finds Continuing Sobering Trends
DECISIONS BY GOVERNOR DUCEY CONTINUE TO EXACERBATE THE EPIDEMIC BELOW IS A SUMMARY OF DR. GERALD’S WEEKLY EPIDEMIOLOGICAL & HOSPITAL CAPACITY REPORT VIEW THE FULL REPORT HERE Arizona is experiencing high and rapidly increasing levels of community transmission that will be sustained to create another surge of cases and hospitalizations as big as the summer of 2020. While I am hopeful we will not reach the levels seen in the
Arizona Research Finds that CHW’s Improve Birthweight in the Health Start Program
Through a comprehensive study of the last 10 years, researchers from NAU and UA found that pregnant women and mothers enrolled in Arizona’s Health Start Program (which employs community health workers to conduct home visits) have lower rates of low birthweight and preterm newborns than women who didn’t participate in Health Start. BMJ recently published their results entitled, “ Addressing maternal and child health equity through a community health worker home visiting
Maricopa County Public Health Taking Orders from School Districts for BinaxNOW Rapid Tests
Maricopa County Department of Public Health has finalized their system to supply schools with BinaxNOW Self-Tests in K-12 students and staff. These rapid tests augment already available school testing including pooled testing provided through ADHS, and community testing events and sites such as retail pharmacies. Schools can order these test kits through the MCDPH resource Request Tool. They are asking public schools to coordinate the ordering and distribution of tests through
School COVID Testing Is Free and Important: Get Your School On-Board!
Ideally we’d have a governor and health department director that support all evidence-based interventions to prevent COVID-19 infections in K-12 schools while maximizing the chance for in-person instruction by supporting CDC’s Guidance for COVID-19 Prevention in K-12 Schools. Sadly, that’s not the deck that Arizona voters dealt us. We’ve been dealt a hand that includes a governor who is actively hostile toward universal indoor K-12 masking, one of primary tools
School Mask Drama Coming To A Head
This article by Howie Fischer does a good job summarizing the legal issues and arguments surrounding the lawsuit filed against the Phoenix Union High School District for requiring that students and staff wear masks in classrooms. Last week the judge in the case declined to issue a temporary restraining order after an attorney for the district told him that there’s no law being violated — at least not yet, if ever.