Cases and deaths appear to be decreasing, but state data no longer shows key hospitalization metrics since the state's emergency declaration ended.
on March 30. State health officials said hospitals aren't required to report some COVID-19 surveillance data to the state anymore, meaning certain graphs showing weekly hospitalization levels for the disease and bed usage by COVID-19 patients are no longer updated.The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still reports state for Arizona and showed a 24% decrease in the seven-day average of COVID-19 hospital admissions from April 11-17 compared with April 4-10.
The vast majority of cases, hospitalizations and deaths are among people not fully vaccinated and boosted. show that 30.2% of cases, 24.9% of hospitalizations and 25.7% of COVID-19 deaths were among fully vaccinated people without a booster, with most of the rest among unvaccinated people. Fully vaccinated people with a booster made up 17.4% of reported cases, 11% of hospitalizations and 9.6% of deaths in February.
As of Wednesday, there had been 1,867 breakthrough deaths in fully vaccinated individuals, according to state health officials’ preliminary data, which works out to a breakthrough death rate of 0.04% among fully vaccinated people. The omicron variant and the BA.2 version of omicron are still contributing to many of the cases in Arizona, according to results from sequencing labs.
A positivity rate of 5% or less is considered a good benchmark that the disease's spread is under control. New York City has the highest death rate, at 478 deaths per 100,000 people, followed by Mississippi at 417.Many of the reported deaths occurred days or weeks before because of reporting delays and death certificate matching.Vaccination update
Arizona's rate of fully vaccinated people out of the total population is 61.3%, which is behind the national rate of 66%, Out of the vaccine-eligible population, people ages five and older, 65.2% of those in Arizona are fully vaccinated, compared with 70.1% at the national level, CDC data shows.
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