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An elementary school student prepares to self-administer a COVID-19 test in a frame from a promotional video by Ginkgo Bioworks, which distributes "pooled testing" systems to schools around the country.

The Long Road: How COVID changed politics

Jun 17, 2025 Did the silos deepen or did people start paying more attention?
A Centers for Disease Control illustration of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19.

UA researchers need more Arizonans to answer survey questions about COVID-19

Jun 12, 2025 Since 2020, a team of researchers has been conducting the Arizona CoVHORT COVID-19 Public Health Research Study to gather data about COVID-19 through an online public survey.
SunTran bus at Ronstadt Transit Center, December 2021.

Future of free Tucson bus fares still under debate

Jun 9, 2025 2025 marks five years since COVID pandemic prompted no-charge for SunTran services.
A TUSD student receives a vaccine at an immunization clinic at Catalina High School on July 27, 2021.

The past is prologue: Arizona’s rising vaccine opt-outs stir echoes of epidemics past

Jun 4, 2025 Doctors and scholars say mistrust, rumors and fear have long complicated disease prevention.
A health care worker holds a vial of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine at a distribution event at Tucson Medical Center on Jan. 15, 2021.

COVID vaccine changes confuse and upset some parents and families

Jun 3, 2025 COVID vaccine access will be more limited for some groups, after federal health officials changed recommendations.
Kenneth Ober had been attending and selling at art shows around the country when the pandemic began in 2020. He began a new chapter in Bisbee.

Covid-19 Five Years Later, a New Life in Arizona

May 9, 2025 Artist Kenneth Ober is reinventing himself in Bisbee after moving from the Los Angeles area.
Illustration of coronavirus structure.

COVID is still evolving and will find new ways to evade immune systems, scientists say

Mar 12, 2025 "It's the fact that we have immunity that is largely responsible for making it seem like this virus is less dangerous," says Michael Worobey, who studies the evolution of viruses at the University of Arizona.

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