Dr. Jeff Burgess, associate dean of research and professor at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, leads the FEMA-funded Fire Fighter Cancer Cohort Study. With more than 20 fire departments participating across the country, the prospective study is focused on carcinogenic exposures and effects, and cancer prevention in the fire service, including paid and volunteer firefighters, training instructors, fire cause investigators, wildland-urban interface firefighting, airport fire department and stations, and women firefighters.

Daniel Derksen, a physician and the director of the Arizona Center for Rural Health at the University of Arizona, where he is also a professor, said he’s puzzled “that some individuals and a few health providers are skeptical about the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines but are so gung-ho on ivermectin."

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Experts say the best way to minimize fear surrounding COVID-19 vaccines is for medical professionals to listen to people's concerns and connect them with correct and accessible information. "We have to be transparent with people, we have to talk about stuff, but we always have to start by listening, understanding and trying to correct the distortions that people may be having," said Dr. Francisco Moreno, professor of psychiatry at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.

Joe Gerald, an associate professor with the University of Arizona's Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, said Arizona is in a four-week stretch where the number of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are coming down. "We are trending in the right direction, but we have to remember we are coming down from just a catastrophic peak.”

The coronavirus pandemic has soared to more than 26 million cases in the United States as new studies show that younger folks are largely responsible for the spread. Dr. Shad Marvasti, Director of Public Health Prevention and Health Promotion at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix, breaks down the latest coronavirus developments.

Health Sciences educator Lisa Quale of the Skin Cancer Institute says the wintertime is no time to ease up on protection from the sun.

An interprofessional team of researchers asked UArizona employees aged 50 and older what kind of support they need, then designed programs to provide it.

Continuing coverage: Even as demand for COVID-19 vaccines massively outstripped supply, 553 doses of the vaccine had to be discarded at Maricopa County sites in the first month that vaccines were available. However, some public health experts say this is to be expected for a mass vaccination campaign. "The reality is that it's likely there is some wastage," said Dr. Shad Marvasti of the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix.

Even as demand for COVID-19 vaccines massively outstripped supply, 553 doses of the vaccine had to be discarded at Maricopa County sites in the first month that vaccines were available. However, some public health experts say this is to be expected for a mass vaccination campaign. "The reality is that it's likely there is some wastage," said Dr. Shad Marvasti, director of the Public Health, Prevention and Population Health curriculum at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix.