State releases COVID-19 positive cases by ZIP code, deaths by county1 min read

Beginning Sunday, April 12, the Arizona Department of Health Services will now provide information on location by ZIP codes of patients with confirmed diagnoses of the COVID-19 coronavirus and will also start listing race and ethnic information about the patients.

Deaths will be recorded by age and gender — but not necessarily with the same geographic precision. See those numbers HERE https://www.azdhs.gov/

ZIP codes with fewer than 10 cases will not be included. Counties with fewer than 3 deaths will not be included. See the interactive map HERE. 

Gov. Doug Ducey said his order earlier this week also requires reporting of the number of ventilators in use and how much personal protection equipment — masks, gowns and gloves — is being used each day, along with current inventories.

ADHS’ site will include the number of hospital beds in use for COVID-19 treatment, hospital and ICU beds available, and the number of hospitalizations and visits to Emergency Department for treatment of the virus.

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The data will be available on a statewide basis only.

Christopher Fox Graham

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism and First Amendment law and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. Retired U.S. Army Col. John Mills, former director of Cybersecurity Policy, Strategy, and International Affairs referred to him as "Mr. Slam Poet."

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