Coronavirus Archives

YRMC postpones elective surgeries again

January 4, 2021 1:00 PM Crystal Jimenez

Yuma Regional Medical Center’s (YRMC) frontline workers continue to focus most of their energy on fighting coronavirus in the face of a second wave. …

Second round of COVID vaccine to begin soon

January 4, 2021 12:39 PM Arlette Yousif

Yuma’s Director of Public Health Monday urged those qualified to receive the coronavirus vaccine to do so as soon as…

2,344 new COVID cases since New Year’s Day, in Yuma and Imperial counties

January 4, 2021 5:49 PM Jenny Day

Latest local COVID…

Home Grown: Frequent COVID testing important for farmers

January 4, 2021 6:00 PM April Hettinger

Day laborers responsible for the nation’s food source work in close quarters, so testing and preventative measures are crucial to keeping them…

Losing weight may lower COVID-19 risk

January 4, 2021 5:47 PM Mercedes Martinez

Obesity is one of the top underlying health conditions associated with COVID-19 deaths More than 40% of adults in the U.S are obese. COVID-19…

Health officials say tougher measures needed soon in Baja California to control COVID-19 cases

January 4, 2021 10:45 AM Sumiko Keil

The State Secretary of Health in Baja California, Alonso Pérez Rico, says officials will add restrictive measures to prevent more…

Arizona reports more than 5,100 new COVID-19 cases, 3 deaths

January 4, 2021 10:11 AM The Associated Press

Arizona health officials have reported 5,158 new cases of COVID-19 and three additional…

CDC hopes to double the number of coronavirus samples checked for new mutations

January 4, 2021 8:40 AM CNN

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hopes to more than double the number of coronavirus genomes sequenced to watch for new mutations in…

Students head back to school as distance learning continues

January 3, 2021 8:45 PM Cody Lee

Students are heading back to school but most local school districts reverting to virtual learning following the holiday season. This, as state…

Mental health is one of the biggest pandemic issues we’ll face in 2021

January 4, 2021 7:17 AM CNN

With progress in efforts for Covid-19 vaccines and predictions for when the population will receive them, there seems to be a light at the end of the…

FDA to consider giving half doses of Moderna’s vaccine

January 4, 2021 7:16 AM Dominique Newland

(KYMA, KECY) – The FDA is meeting this week to consider giving half-doses of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine to people ages 18 to 55. The head of…

Sonoran officials anxiously wait for COVID-19 vaccine

January 4, 2021 6:16 AM Sumiko Keil

The Sonora State Health Secretary Enrique Clausen says they’re ready to receive the vaccine against…

Fauci: Vaccinations are increasing in a ‘glimmer of hope’

January 4, 2021 5:41 AM The Associated Press

Dr. Anthony Fauci says that President-elect Joe Biden’s pledge to administer 100 million shots of the vaccine within his first 100 days in…

Help arrives for California hospitals short on oxygen

January 4, 2021 5:35 AM The Associated Press

The collaboration comes as the six aging hospitals struggle to maintain oxygen pressure while treating an unprecedented number of patients with…

Ducey rejects request for 2-week school ‘quarantine’

January 4, 2021 5:32 AM The Associated Press

Despite the state’s surge of coronavirus cases, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey on Saturday rejected the state’s top education official’s call for him…

More than 4.2 million Americans have been given their first Covid-19 vaccine. Experts say the US needs to go faster

January 4, 2021 4:31 AM CNN

With more than 4.2 million people given their first doses of Covid-19 vaccines so far, experts say the pace of inoculation in the US needs to speed…

California reports more than 45,000 new coronavirus cases as surge continues into new year

January 4, 2021 1:14 AM CNN

California reported Sunday that 45,352 people newly tested positive for Covid-19, continuing a surge that has pushed hospitals and their exhausted…

More than 4.2 million coronavirus vaccines have been given and experts say the US needs to go faster

January 4, 2021 1:13 AM CNN, Dominique Newland

With more than 4.2 million people given their first doses of Covid-19 vaccines so far, experts say the pace of inoculation in the US needs to speed…

Europe has kept its schools open for much of the pandemic. Now closures loom

January 4, 2021 1:10 AM CNN

The coronavirus pandemic transformed the working and social lives of millions of European adults in 2020. Children too have suffered immensely, with…

43 staffers at a California hospital tested positive for Covid-19. An inflatable costume may be to blame

January 3, 2021 11:51 AM CNN

Hospitals around the United States are racing to keep up with surges of Covid-19 patients at numbers they have not seen at any other time in the…