Authors: Howard J. Eng.
It had been two years since Arizona’s COVID-19 Reopening Phase 3 began on March 5, 2021. The state is about the same size as Italy and the sixth largest in size of the United States 50 states. The two-year longitudinal study examined changes in the number of new COVID-19 cases, hospitalized cases, and deaths. There were increases of 1,619,025 COVID-19 cases, 76,303 case hospitalizations, and 16,779 deaths during the study period, but there were declines in the numbers of cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in the second year. There were five case surges. Even with the case surges, the new normal was low number of severe cases, manageable hospitalization numbers, and low number of deaths going into the third year of the reopening. Arizona was moving toward the endemic phase of COVID-19.
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