Around 3,000 Arizonans are participating in a COVID-19 study led by researchers from the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. The AZ HEROES study is led by Jeff Burgess, associate dean for research and professor at the UArizona College of Public Health.

Arizona's Native American population has been hit disproportionately hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. Native Americans make up about 5% of Arizona's population but at least 8% of the state’s deaths from the virus. But since vaccines started rolling out across the state, Native Americans have been getting vaccinated at higher rates than the general population. Agnes Attakai, a member of the Navajo Nation and director of Health Disparities Outreach and Prevention Education at the University of Arizona's Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, is interviewed.

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Tucson nonprofit Integrative Touch for Kids is using telehealth to reach out and help kids and caregivers – including physicians and other health-care providers – to care for themselves during the pandemic. "By helping to care for the caregivers and heal the healers, the program has an incredible ripple effect when you consider all of the patients, colleagues and staff that the providers impact," said Dr. Elizabeth Kyle Meehan, program director of the Family Medicine Residency at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson South Campus.

Dr. Shad Marvasti, director of public health, prevention and health promotion at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, discusses the efficacy of current COVID-19 vaccines.

"To put it simply, our GI tract is sensitive to all types of emotion – anxiety, sadness, anger, elation," said Janelle Thompson, a clinical health psychologist and assistant professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson who specializes in gastrointestinal diseases. "A clear example of this is the nausea or intestinal discomfort that many people feel before giving a presentation."

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New data is revealing staggering statistics in regards to alcohol consumption during the pandemic. University of Arizona researcher William Killgore says alcohol use increased by up to 400% in one category, within the first six months of the pandemic. Killgore is a Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, Medical Imaging at the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson. He says the increase in alcohol consumption to cope with the stress of the pandemic is making the ongoing health crisis worse.

With the arrival of a new COVID-19 vaccine that only requires a single dose, we learned more about how it differs from the Moderna and Pfizer vaccines from Dr. Elizabeth Connick, chief of the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson infectious diseases division.