Vaccine News
As of last month, 76% of city employees had been vaccinated against COVID-19, while 546 employees had requested an exemption from getting the vaccine.
As of Monday, 55.2% of all state residents had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, and 3.4 million had been fully vaccinated.
With COVID-19 vaccination rates declining in Arizona, public and private entities are using incentives to get more shots into more arms.
The state currently operates vaccine sites in Chandler, Glendale, Tempe, Tucson, and, as of this Friday, Yuma.
The doses administered at State Farm Stadium account for almost half of the doses that have been administered across the country at NFL stadiums.
Food service workers were deemed essential during the early stages of the pandemic, but most are still not prioritized for vaccination.
Arizona’s COVID-19 cases have dropped significantly as vaccination efforts have spread rapidly across the state.
