Dr. Cara Christ, then director of the Arizona Department of Health Services, administers Gov. Doug Ducey’s COVID-19 vaccine on March 2, 2021.
Opinion: Overwhelmingly, people want to get on with living with the risk.
By Robert Robb | Arizona Republic
The courts have struck down a legislative ban on vaccine and mask mandates by local governments and schools.
The delta variant of COVID-19 seems to have a greater capacity to infect the vaccinated than expected.
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Preliminary indications are that the omicron variant is more contagious and more vaccine resistant than previous mutations.
COVID-19 cases are taking up a larger percentage of hospital beds.
So, what should Gov. Doug Ducey be doing about all of this? The prudent and most appropriate answer is: nothing.
Ducey is being pressured on both sides
Ducey is, not unusually, facing conflicting pressures on COVID-19 management.
The anti-mandate crowd on the populist right is demanding that he issue an executive order reinstating the mandate prohibition and call a special session of the Legislature to make it statutory.
