[ Sign up for our Health IQ newsletter for the latest coronavirus updates ]“Regardless of what we see in the next week, we made the right decision to go ahead and lift some of these restrictions so we don’t cause more damage to people’s lives and their livelihood,” Hutchinson said.Arizona has become one of the most troubling hot spots in the U.S.
as new cases have surged to more than 1,000 a day, up from fewer than 400 before stay-at-home orders expired in mid-May.Republican Gov.
Doug Ducey has given assurances the health care system can handle it, and Arizona Health Director Dr. Cara Christ said: “We are not going to be able to stop the spread, and so we can’t stop living as well.”California, which implemented the country’s first statewide.