Here's a link to a story by Nicholas Reimann that appeared online at Forbes yesterday. You can see that more than a few people - to be exact 18,538 - have taken the time to see it. What Governor Doug Ducey frequently calls "The Arizona Way" to set himself and The State of Arizona separate and apart in a Media-Manipulation Bubble until it bursts under public pressure from appearing on-the-radar of national attention.
The same thing goes for "The Mesa Way", a phrase used by Chief Executive Officer/City Manager Chris Brady and Hizzoner Mesa Mayor John Giles - they don't like news they can't control.
TOPLINE
Arizona has shattered its record for new coronavirus cases reported in a single day, as the state deals with one of the fastest infection rates of coronavirus in the nation that’s led to hospitalizations reaching an all-time high.
On Tuesday, the Arizona Department of Health Services reported 2,392 new cases of coronavirus—the first time the state has ever recorded at least 2,000 cases in a single day.
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KEY FACTS
> The new case count topped the old single-day record—which was recorded on Friday—by almost 45%.
> The hardest hit part of the state by far has been Maricopa County, which includes the city of Phoenix and its sprawling suburbs; the county accounts for over half of all cases and deaths in the state
> Positive test results—a key metric used to determine whether coronavirus spread is increasing—has also spiked
> But despite all the health trends going in the wrong direction, Gov. Doug Ducey has said rolling back Arizona’s reopening is “not under discussion"
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Health officials on the ground also said the state needs to do more to address the situation.
"Frankly, I just think a wholesale reevaluation of where we're at is critical right now, but I can tell you that we're not doing nearly enough,”
-- Quinn Snyder, an emergency medicine physician in Mesa, told NPR
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Here is just one more recent case-in-point that illustrates the obvious lack of open-ness, transparency and accountability from state and city officials when it comes to providing facts and data: we simply don't know here in Mesa, for example, what public school employees or city officials, or any other number of employees in other jobs in individual cities - or any individual city council districts - the number of positive COVID-19 cases reported - nor any of the Hot-Zone Clusters that may raise more warnings signals about widespread transmissions we simply cannot ignore.
Mesa assistant basketball coach Tony Darden, daughter test positive for COVID-19
Report from MSN.Com
The same thing goes for "The Mesa Way", a phrase used by Chief Executive Officer/City Manager Chris Brady and Hizzoner Mesa Mayor John Giles - they don't like news they can't control.
TOPLINE
Arizona has shattered its record for new coronavirus cases reported in a single day, as the state deals with one of the fastest infection rates of coronavirus in the nation that’s led to hospitalizations reaching an all-time high.
On Tuesday, the Arizona Department of Health Services reported 2,392 new cases of coronavirus—the first time the state has ever recorded at least 2,000 cases in a single day.
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KEY FACTS
> The new case count topped the old single-day record—which was recorded on Friday—by almost 45%.
> The hardest hit part of the state by far has been Maricopa County, which includes the city of Phoenix and its sprawling suburbs; the county accounts for over half of all cases and deaths in the state
> Positive test results—a key metric used to determine whether coronavirus spread is increasing—has also spiked
> But despite all the health trends going in the wrong direction, Gov. Doug Ducey has said rolling back Arizona’s reopening is “not under discussion"
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Health officials on the ground also said the state needs to do more to address the situation.
"Frankly, I just think a wholesale reevaluation of where we're at is critical right now, but I can tell you that we're not doing nearly enough,”
-- Quinn Snyder, an emergency medicine physician in Mesa, told NPR
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Here is just one more recent case-in-point that illustrates the obvious lack of open-ness, transparency and accountability from state and city officials when it comes to providing facts and data: we simply don't know here in Mesa, for example, what public school employees or city officials, or any other number of employees in other jobs in individual cities - or any individual city council districts - the number of positive COVID-19 cases reported - nor any of the Hot-Zone Clusters that may raise more warnings signals about widespread transmissions we simply cannot ignore.
Mesa assistant basketball coach Tony Darden, daughter test positive for COVID-19
