43 COVID-19 deaths in Arizona in past 24 hours
Blitz Testing to Continue
Spectrum Healthcare will be continuing with the AZ Testing Blitz for the next two Saturdays, May 23 and 30, with shortened hours. They will be set up at 651 Mingus Avenue in Cottonwood, and in Prescott at 990 Willow Creek Road from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
The Arizona Department of Health Services reported 43 COVID-19 deaths in the past 24 hours. That pushes the state’s coronavirus death tally to 747 as the overall Arizona caseload has grown to 14,987.
The Wednesday morning ADHS report also shows a continued decline in Arizona’s positive-test ratio with 5.8% of 227,099 tests yielding a positive result.
With 331 new positive tests in the past 24 hours, ADHS has documented 7,249 new COVID-19 cases in Arizona this month.
Demographic breakdown of Arizona cases
The Wednesday morning ADHS data shows the 65-and-older age group has accounted for 593 of the state’s 747 deaths. There have been 87 deaths reported among people 55-64 years of age.
ADHS reports women contract the virus in higher numbers than men in Arizona (53%), but more men than women die from COVID-19 (55%).
Location of cases
Maricopa County has the highest number of coronavirus cases in Arizona with 7,644.
Pima County has 1,903 cases, with the next highest frequency being in Navajo County with 1,361 cases. Apache County has 1,080 documented cases. Coconino County has 961 positive tests.
Testing data
People between the ages of 20 and 44 have had the highest number of positive tests (5,826), but the fewest deaths (28). Seniors 65-and-older have tested positive 3,140 times with 593 deaths.
The Arizona Department of Health Services website, www.azdhs.gov, includes detailed information on the ethnicity of coronavirus in Arizona as well as a zip code map that shows the location of confirmed cases.
Yavapai County
Yavapai County Community Health Services’ Wednesday morning report shows 272 confirmed positive tests, six deaths and 38 patients who have recovered from the virus. There have been 92 new cases in Yavapai County since May 10.
Of the six deaths among county patients, all have been seniors 65 and older; four men and two women. Two of the deaths were Verde Valley patients; four were from the Quad-Cities area.
YCCHS reports 49 cases in the Sedona-Verde Valley region with 13 confirmed cases in Cottonwood, 17 in Sedona, 10 in Camp Verde and nine throughout the rest of the Verde Valley. There are 113 confirmed cases at the Mingus Mountain Academy girls school.
YCCHS reports 8,596 people in Yavapai County have been tested for COVID-19 with 96.8% of those being negative.
Women outpace men by a 188-83 margin for positive COVID-19 tests in Yavapai County, according to YCCHS.
See www.yavapai.us/chs.
Hospital Reports
Wednesday, Verde Valley Medical Center in Cottonwood reported a hospital census of 67 patients with eight in critical care. VVMC reports zero positive cases of coronavirus with six tests pending.
Flagstaff Medical Center reports 19 positive tests with 35 results pending. FMC has admitted 201 patients; 43 of those patients are in critical care.
See nahealth.com/covid-19-resources.
U.S. and global totals
The most recent estimates of U.S. and global cases of COVID-19 put the U.S. caseload at 1.56 million Wednesday morning, with the U.S. death tally at 92,333, the highest of any nation in the world, according to Johns Hopkins University. More than 298,000 Americans have recovered from COVID-19.
The virus is present in all 50 states, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, according to the CDC.
There are 4.93 million cases reported worldwide, with 324,000 deaths and 1.71 million recoveries.
COVID-19 confirmed cases in Arizona
May 20 14,897 cases
May 19 14,566 cases
May 18 14,170 cases
May 17 13,937 cases
May 16 13,631 cases
May 15 13,169 cases
May 14 12,674 cases
May 13 12,176 cases
May 12 11,736 cases
May 11 11,380 cases
May 10 11,119 cases
May 9 10,960 cases
May 8 10,526 cases
May 7 9,945 cases
May 6 9,707 cases
May 5 9,305 cases
May 4 8,919 cases
May 3 8,640 cases
May 2 8,364 cases
May 1 7,962 cases
April 30 7,648 cases
April 29 7,202 cases
April 28 6,948 cases
April 27 6,716 cases
April 26 6,526 cases
April 25 6,280 cases
April 24 6,045 cases
April 23 5,769 cases
April 22 5,459 cases
April 21 5,251 cases
April 20 5,064 cases
April 19 4,929 cases
April 18 4,719 cases
April 17 4,507 cases
April 16 4,234 cases
April 15 3,962 cases
April 14 3,806 cases
April 13 3,702 cases
April 12 3,539 cases
April 11 3,393 cases
April 10 3,112 cases
April 9 3,018 cases
April 8 2,726 cases
April 7 2,575 cases
April 6 2,456 cases
April 5 2,269 cases
April 4 2,019 cases
April 3 1,769 cases
April 2 1,598 cases
April 1 1,413 cases
March 31 1,289 cases
March 30 1,157 cases
March 29 919 cases
March 28 773 cases
March 27 665 cases
March 26 508 cases
March 25 401 cases
March 24 326 cases
March 23 235 cases
March 21 106 cases
March 20 63 cases
March 19 44 cases
Jan. 26 First Arizona case reported
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