April's Tucson-area coronavirus coverage: 1,200+ Pima County cases, stay-home order extended
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Here's a look at April stories surrounding local coronavirus coverage. This collection will continue to be updated. To see stories from January through March, click here. To see stories from May, click here.
See day-to-day brief updates, such as closures and other changes, here.
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A Marana High School junior conducted a survey asking which coronavirus mitigation measures people were following. The responses she got, although not scientific, showed people were largely following social distancing and other measures recommended by public health departments.
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With more than 95% of its rooms on the ground floor, visitors can often access the outside of a patient’s room without having to enter the hospital. Others who have to enter can visit from a hospital patio window, after being issued a face mask and having their temperatures taken.
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A plan by the University of Arizona to test 250,000 Arizonans for COVID-19 antibodies comes as scientists are still debating how much protection against future infection a positive result means, and for how long.
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To cover a portion of the unexpected costs, TUSD has had to dip into funds intended to increase the number of librarians and music teachers for the upcoming school year, and to refurbish music and sports equipment.
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Tucson’s public schools have been forced to make a huge effort to narrow the digital divide among students since campuses across Arizona were ordered shut during the pandemic — and are doing so with nearly no help from the state.
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Tucson’s public schools have been forced to make a huge effort to narrow the digital divide among students since campuses across Arizona were ordered shut during the pandemic — and are doing so with nearly no help from the state.
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The “new blue-collar workforce,” here includes traditional jobs, like manual labor, but now also includes members of the gig economy, such as retail and service workers, musicians and artists.
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Tucsonans donated thousands of N95 masks to medical professionals in China earlier this year. When the pandemic escalated here, China's health-care workers returned the favor and sent thousands of unused masks back to Tucson.
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The task force will develop criteria for reopening in phases, help expedite changes in government regulations and provide guidance to employers to ensure their employees are safe and healthy as they return to work.
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A Marana restaurant is still waiting to see if it's approved for a federal loan while one of Tucson's largest family-owned restaurant companies has yet to see any cash from its approved applications.
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Congress passed two relief packages to cover coronavirus testing for everyone. But neither insured nor uninsured patients are fully protected from having to pay for a test.
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A surge in hospitalizations of coronavirus patients is anticipated towards the end of April. The University of Arizona and the state report positive findings on the availability of ventilators, as well as inpatient and ICU beds.
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As the spread of the novel coronavirus continues to cause concern in people across the globe, parents-to-be are especially anxious about how the virus will impact their pregnancy and their newborns.
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The increase in the jobless rate is a taste of what's to come given that the March data was collected before Arizona businesses were ordered closed and a stay-at-home order was put in place.
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They say there's "no factual basis'' for the attorney general's assertion that universities must release more information about students, faculty and staff who contract COVID-19.
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Tucson's largest school district approved measures that ensure seniors on track to graduate before the closures will receive a diploma and that younger students' grades can only be boosted, not harmed.
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The local inmate who tested positive for coronavirus is at Marana Community Correctional Treatment Facility north of Tucson. The private facility provides custody and substance abuse treatment for about 500 men.
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SaddleBrooke residents Rick and Elaine Beeble were troubled to learn of a shortage of protective masks for medical caregivers in today’s troubling times. They quickly came up with an idea to address that need, if only in a small way.
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The main entrances to Bahia Kino and Puerto Peñasco, known to many Arizonans as Kino Bay and Rocky Point, are also blocked by police or military checkpoints, prohibiting nonresidents from entering.
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In new filings Friday with the state Supreme Court, Attorney General Mark Brnovich urged the justices to delay any action on a bid by several groups to seek an exemption to laws that say initiative signatures need to signed in person.
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Bars, restaurants and nursing homes have closed or are practicing social distancing in Arizona. But group homes have received little guidance, putting people with intellectual disabilities at risk.
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