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 LATEST INFORMATION
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2,031 Cases Reported Yesterday;
186,564 Cases Since January
8% Hospitalized
1% ICU Admissions
Demographic Breakdown
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Holiday
Guidance
from CDC
Travel discouraged for Thanksgiving
Data Breakdown
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Your decisions matter. Every contact you have with others puts you at more risk to make yourself sick or spread COVID-19 to your friends, family, and members of your community. These choices could be the difference between a school staying open for in-person learning or not, between a business being able to keep its doors open or not, between our health care workers being able to provide the best care for patients or not. Let’s come together as a community to protect each other. |
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Layers of Protection
Home is the safest place to be as cases rise in our community. Limit in-person social gatherings and outings. When you do go out, make sure to wear a mask and keep six feet of distance from those outside your household. Just like sandwiches are better with multiple layers, you get more benefit from multiple layers of protection. A mask and social distancing combined are better than either one alone, and your protection is even stronger when you add other layers.
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Public Health’s Role In The Pandemic
When there’s an outbreak of a communicable disease, Public Health’s role is to collect data, analyze that data, and make recommendations to members of the public and policy makers on how to stop the spread of the disease. Much of that data, and many of those recommendations, can be found at Maricopa.gov/COVID19. Public Health does not make policy.
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Do I Need A COVID-19 Test?
If you have COVID-like symptoms, you should get tested right away. If you’ve been exposed to someone with the virus, but you’re not experiencing symptoms, testing is recommended any time between day 7 and day 14 after exposure.
Here are two free options if you need to get a COVID-19 test:
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Maricopa County events: Public Health and its partners offer free COVID-19 tests to anyone, regardless of whether they’re insured or not. You don’t have to have symptoms to get tested. See a list of times and locations at gov/COVID19Testing.
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ADHS events: Arizona Department of Health Services recently partnered with ASU to offer free, saliva-based tests in the Phoenix area. Results come back within 48 hours. Find more information
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If You Test Positive
If you test positive for COVID-19, you will be contacted by Maricopa County Public Health, possibly via text message. The text will include a survey that will help us begin your case investigation. Make sure to provide up-to-date contact information when getting tested. If we are unable to get in touch with you, we will not be able to assist in alerting your close contacts about their exposure to COVID-19, which could mean a greater chance of the virus spreading to others. This is especially important at a time of increased transmission of COVID-19.
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Flu Protection: Give It A Shot
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We have a shot to ease the burden on our healthcare system and keep people out of the hospital this flu season, but it’s going to take a community-wide commitment. Now is a great time to get vaccinated for influenza, especially if you are planning any holiday gatherings. You can find a list of free flu vaccine events, plus FAQ’s, at Maricopa.gov/flu. |
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