Geography can also play a role. About 5.5 million of the seven million Arizona residents, about three in four people, live in Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, and Pima County, which includes Tucson. Both issued orders requiring face masks just over a month ago, in mid-June.
The Navajo Nation, affected by severe outbreaks in March and April, has also vigorously introduced measures such as mask mandates, checkpoints, and curfews. The reserve, which spans parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah, has reported fewer than 50 new cases per day in the past week, compared to more than 170 per day a few weeks ago.
With prevention efforts on the rise, the vast majority of Arizonans have been living with masks and more closures mandates for about a month, about the time experts say it takes to begin to see the effect of the new policies.
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Frequent questions
Updated July 23, 2020
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What will school be like in September?
- Many schools are unlikely to return to normal hours this fall, requiring the routine of online learning, impromptu child care, and delayed work days to continue. California’s two largest public school districts, Los Angeles and San Diego, said July 13 that instruction will be remote only in the fall, citing concerns that rising coronavirus infections in their areas pose too serious a risk to students and teachers. Together, the two districts enroll about 825,000 students. They are the largest in the country so far to abandon plans for a partial physical return to classrooms when they reopen in August. For other districts, the solution will not be an all-or-nothing approach. Many systems, including the country’s largest New York City, are devising hybrid plans that involve spending a few days in classrooms and other days online. There is no national policy on this yet, so check with your municipal school system regularly to see what’s going on in your community.
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Is the coronavirus in the air?
- Coronavirus can remain in the air for hours in tiny droplets in stagnant air, infecting people as they inhale, growing scientific evidence suggests. This risk is highest in crowded interior spaces with poor ventilation, and may help explain overcast events reported in meat packing plants, churches, and restaurants. It is unclear how often the virus is transmitted through these tiny droplets or sprays, compared to larger droplets that are expelled when a sick person coughs or sneezes, or is transmitted through contact with contaminated surfaces, Linsey said. Marr, Virginia Tech aerosol expert. Aerosols are released even when a symptom-free person exhales, speaks or sings, according to Dr. Marr and more than 200 other experts, who have summarized the evidence in an open letter to the World Organization. Of the health.
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What are the symptoms of coronavirus?
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Does Covid-19 transmit asymptomatic?
- So far, the evidence seems to show that it does. A widely cited article published in April suggests that people are most infectious approximately two days before the onset of coronavirus symptoms, and estimated that 44 percent of new infections were the result of transmission from people who still had no symptoms. Recently, a senior expert at the World Health Organization stated that transmission of the coronavirus by people without symptoms was “very rare,” but later withdrew that claim.
By contrast, many of Florida’s 21 million residents are spread across large and medium-sized cities, with overlapping city and county governments. With mask orders in many of the largest counties, and a statewide bar limit since late June, the state has shown some small decreases in new cases in recent days for an average of 10,000 cases per day, in compared to 11,800 last week. .
In Texas, whose 29 million residents are spread across 254 counties, Governor Greg Abbott closed bars in late June and issued a state-wide mask requirement about three weeks ago. The state now averages more than 9,000 cases per day, compared to more than 10,000 a few days ago. In Houston, officials are seeing reason for hope amid a slight drop in hospitalizations, even as the virus has overwhelmed hospitals in other parts of Texas, including the border region known as the Rio Grande Valley.
“We are cautiously optimistic that we are seeing a leveling off,” said Catherine Troisi, an infectious disease epidemiologist at the UTHealth School of Public Health in Houston, who said the combination of measures seemed to be working.
