On second anniversary, Covid-19 still racks up grim milestones in Arizona

WASHINGTON – Two years after Arizona’s first confirmed case of Covid-19, the state has racked up close to 1.8 million infections and the virus has killed almost 26,000, just two of many grim milestones on the pandemic’s “really long journey.” The rate of Covid-19 deaths in the state is currently second-highest in the nation, according to federal data, and more than 100,000 people in Arizona have been hospitalized with the disease since Jan. 26, 2020. More than 10.5 million vaccine doses…