ET Covid-19 Live Updates: Arizona Cases Swell to Levels Worse Than the Summer In the past week, the state has averaged more than 8,000 cases a day, more than double the peak in mid-2020. Over the last week, the state has averaged more than 8,000 cases a day, more than double the summer peak. Nurses are being quickly trained in new skills and hundreds of health care workers are being flown in from other states. Sandra Lindsay received her second dose of the Covid-19 Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine on Monday, three weeks after the first dose. There are 21 million health care workers nationwide, and three million residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.

Source: International New York Times January 06, 2021 10:02 UTC