March 14, 2021 University of Arizona COVID Update

March 17, 2021
Community Relations
UA COVID 19 POD

 

Headlines

  • President Robbins announced this week that plans are underway for a carefully planned series of in-person commencement events to honor our 2021 graduates.  We are also glad to welcome a limited number of fans to sporting events. 

  • An important milestone was reached with vaccinations in Pima County this week.  More than 60% of the 65+ population has now received at least one dose of vaccine, so both the County sites and the UA state site are now serving those 55+. The County is also registering front line essential workers. 

  • The state POD at the UA continues to release appointments once a week for the following week.  This week’s appointments were released yesterday at 8:00a. 

  • According to AZDHS, in Pima County 221,295 people, 21.2%, have received at least one dose of vaccine.  Over 354,433 doses have been administered in the county. 

  • Medical volunteers are urgently needed to help staff the university's high-capacity state vaccination site in six-hour shifts from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day of the week. Those who are interested are asked to register with the Arizona Disaster Healthcare Volunteers and then complete the UArizona vaccination POD volunteer form.

Vaccine Administration at UA site (from UA dashboard) https://covid19.arizona.edu/dashboard

3/14/21 UA Dashboard Vaccine Information

Cases (from UA dashboard) https://covid19.arizona.edu/dashboard

  • Our case numbers remain extremely low.  Over the past 10 days – 25 new cases out of 13,084 tests, .2% positivity rate.

(We only test a few students on the weekends, which is why yesterday’s number of tests is low.)  

3.14.21 UA Cases and Testing info from the dashboard

Testing (from UA dashboard) https://covid19.arizona.edu/dashboard

  • Of the 13,084 tests administered in the past 10 days, 6,712 have been to off-campus students, .3% positivity rate

  • On-campus students, positivity rate 0.1%

  • Employees – 1 positive over the past 10 days, out of 2,075 tests, 0.0% positivity rate. Much of our workforce continues to work remotely but can be tested on campus. 

  • 214,717 tests administered total

3.14.21 UA Rt number from dashboard

Rt Values

  • The Rt in the 85719 zip code is .61.  Pima County’s Rt is .63, and Arizona’s is .65.  (This data is not updated from my report last week.)