A recent study reveals the majority of people in Arizona who have contracted COVID-19 were not vaccinated.
The Arizona Department of Health Services showed that out of 16,910 COVID-19 cases in the state in May, 95.4 percent or 16,139 of them involved people who were not fully vaccinated. As of mid-June more than 3 million Arizona residents had received both doses of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson/Janssen vaccine. Since the vaccines began arriving in the state in December there were more than 6.2 million doses given to more than 3.4 million people.
Dr. Cara M. Christ, director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, said studies show that the COVID-19 vaccines prevent people from suffering serious illness and death from the virus. While cases and deaths from COVID-19 are much lower now than they were earlier in the pandemic, the virus is still infecting and killing people, Christ said. She added there is no reason for people to contract the virus since there are vaccines that have proven to be effective and safe while there are hundreds of locations providing vaccines, frequently on a walk-in basis.
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