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Arizona gets 3rd coronavirus case

Inmate got $94K bonus while he’s behind bars Convict led sales force in prison telemarketing Craig Harris Arizona Republic USA TODAY NETWORK

Jamie Storm Price went to prison in 2008 for operating a $2 million telemarketing scheme that authorities said preyed on senior citizens.

Thanks to the Arizona Department of Corrections, he found a way to make big money — legally — while behind bars in Tucson.

Price was paid $94,641 in commissions in 2015 while leading an inmate telemarketing sales force. The payout, which was only slightly less than Gov. Doug Ducey’s salary that year, came during a wage freeze for correctional offi cers.

Price said his commissions over several years in prison totaled more than $200,000.

“I made more money in that prison than drug dealers,” said Price, who was released in 2017 and now lives in metro Phoenix.

All the money Price received came from Home Town Hero Project, one of Dr. Rebecca Sunenshine, left, medical director for disease control at the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, speaks during a news conference in Phoenix on Friday about Arizona’s third case of COVID-19. PATRICK BREEN/THE REPUBLIC

Health offi cials say they’re unsure how patient got infected; the case is state’s fi rst instance of ‘community spread’ Symptoms: What to do if you think there’s a chance you have virus. 8A

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The patient presumed to be Arizona’s third case of the new coronavirus is a health care worker in her 40s, and public health offi cials don’t know how she became infected.

The case, announced Friday, is signifi cant in Arizona as it marks the fi rst known instance of “community spread” of the new coronavirus, also called COVID-19.

Transit: Valley Metro heightens cleaning of buses and light-rail trains. 9A Updates: Go to azcentral.com.

“Before, when we just had one or two cases, our job was to contain the disease and try to keep COVID-19 out of our community,” said Dr. Rebecca Sunenshine, medical director for disease con-

trol at the Maricopa County Department of Public Health.

“Now that there is community spread, we all need to do our part to slow the spread, which means keeping sick people away from others.”

Community spread means the patient had no history of traveling to regions of the world aff ected by new coronavirus, and also had no known contact with anyone infected by it. The

impact was snowballing, both in fi nancial markets and in ordinary people’s lives. World stocks and the price of oil fell heavily again Friday. A sharp drop in travel and a broader economic downturn linked to the outbreak threatened to hit already-struggling communities.

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100,000 now infected worldwide The new coronavirus hit a milestone Friday, infecting more than 100,000 people worldwide.

The virus, which has killed nearly 3,400 people, popped up in at least four new countries. It forced mosques in Iran and beyond to halt weekly Muslim prayers. It blocked pilgrims from Jesus’ birthplace in Bethlehem. And it upended Japan’s plans for the Olympic torch parade.

Meanwhile, the epidemic’s economic

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Sanders, who is seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, was joined by at least one lawmaker and anti-hate advocates in condemning the incident, while security at the event faced greater scrutiny.

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Sorry, decor mavens, but family photos are staying Karina Bland Columnist Arizona Republic USA TODAY NETWORK

The headline read, “40 Home Decor Mistakes Everyone Over 45 Should Avoid.” I like to keep up on these kinds of things, so I clicked.

“Some mistakes we make over the age of 45 make our home look ... well, old,” it said. “Instead of being beautiful, they begin to scream ‘senior.’ ” Gulp. I don’t want that.

According to the article, my house doesn’t look like my grandma’s. No frilly shower curtains, shag carpeting or doilies. No formal living room, plastic couch covers, wood paneling, popcorn ceilings or — oops — fake plants.

I have two fake plants. I just can’t keep real ones alive.

“It’s obvious to all of your guests if your plants are fake,” the article said. “It will also make your house look like it is a portal to the ’90s.”

Ouch.

And then, “Covering All Surfaces in Framed Photos.”

“You do want to show off photos of those you love,” I read, “but displaying more than a couple of frames in a room immediately screams ‘Grandma’s house.’ ” Whoops.

Framed pictures cover the walls in nearly every room in my house and sit on just about every fl at surface.

Family photos should be kept in private spaces, the article said. They’re “too personal” for a living room.

It’s true my grandmas displayed a lot of framed photos. I liked seeing myself on the wall, even if it was my old high

school graduation portrait.

Kids who grow up in homes where their photos are displayed have greater confi dence and a sense of belonging, research shows. My cousin’s kids point out their portrait on the piano every time they visit.

I like being surrounded by the people I love. My dad on my nightstand. My son on the walls. My dance group on the refrigerator. It’s better than any art I could buy.

I’m keeping them up. And the fake plants, too.

Grandma got that right.

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Valley&State Laurie Roberts Columnist Arizona Republic USA TODAY NETWORK

The lobbyist loses her job, but legislator can keep his

Advocates hope the changes will address prior problems with old machines.

The new machines feature a touchscreen that allows voters to choose what method they would like to vote, and it includes a handheld controller, audio options and inputs for sip-andpuff devices.

The screen can also be put into large-print type.

The Maricopa County Recorder’s

A powerful man writes love letters to a woman, one who needs his support to be successful at her job.

And the woman is fi red while the man goes about his business?

That’s the way it apparently works at the Arizona Capitol, where state Rep. David Cook is still on the job while the object of his aff ection, lobbyist AnnaMarie Knorr, fi nds herself unemployed.

Funny how that works.

Cook’s extracurricular activities popped into public view in January when copies of his love letters to Knorr were leaked to reporters.

Both Cook, 51, who sits on the two House committees that deal with agricultural issues, and Knorr, 39, a lobbyist for agricultural interests, insisted there was nothing to see here.

“We are friends for years,” the Globe Republican said at the time.

Yes, because it’s perfectly normal for a legislator to write letters to a lobbyist, referring to her as “my love” and saying, “I truly believe that a higher power brought us together at this time in our lives for a right and just purpose.”

No doubt, Cook was writing about the right and just purpose of raising cantaloupes, or some such agricultural activity.

Once the letters hit public view, Knorr was immediately suspended, pending an investigation into professional misconduct, and last week she lost her job with the Western Growers Association.

“As of February 28, 2020, AnnaMarie Knorr is no longer employed with Western Growers. We wish her well,” Cory Lunde, senior director of strategic initiatives and communications, told The Republic’s Andrew Oxford.

Speaking of professional misconduct, Cook since then has been outed not only for his love notes but also for making a 2018 call to the Pinal County sheriff , who just coincidentally decided not to seize property owned by Knorr’s family farming business to pay back taxes.

He would later sponsor a bill to keep the taxman off her back.

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New machines to help voters with disabilities Devices to be put to the test in March 17 primary Rachel Leingang Arizona Republic USA TODAY NETWORK

Across the country, polling places in federal elections must give people with disabilities the same access to voting as people without.

But in Maricopa County, people with disabilities have reported problems at the polls with machines designed for

their use during past elections. Sometimes they weren’t plugged in, were broken or poll workers didn’t know how to operate them.

In the 2018 general election, for instance, voters who were blind found broken machines at several polling places.

On March 17, Maricopa County polling sites will have new accessiblevoting machines at each polling site for the presidential preference election designed to allow people with disabilities to easily vote in person.

36-year-old Tempe fi refi ghter dies of work-related cancer BrieAnna J. Frank Arizona Republic USA TODAY NETWORK

A 36-year-old fi refi ghter with the Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department died of work-related cancer on Friday morning, offi cials said.

Tommy Arriaga began his career with the department in 2014 and “quickly demonstrated his commitment to providing the highest level of service,” ac-

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cording to a department press release.

Arriaga became a member of the Hazardous Materials Response Team in 2016 and served there until his colorectal cancer diagnosis in early

2019.

He was given the Tempe South Rotary Club Outstanding Firefi ghter and

Employee of the Year award on Feb. 28 for his “dedication to improving the fi re service, even while battling cancer,” the press release said.

“Tommy eff ortlessly demonstrated passion, humility and perseverance throughout his life and career with the Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department,” Fire Chief Greg Ruiz said.

“He exuded the true meaning of courage in the face of adversity and through

every obstacle life threw his way.”

Ruiz went on to say that Arriaga “inspired all those around him” with his positive attitude and that that would continue even after his death.

His statement ended by saying Arriaga would be “deeply missed” by those who served with him.

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Frank Dorizio, 55, was struck while setting up a sign that alerted drivers to pavement repairs along Interstate 10 south of Phoenix, the press release said.

He was the fi rst ADOT worker since 1998 to be struck and killed while working along a highway, according to the press release.

Dorizio joined the department in October 2015 as a highway operation worker in northern Arizona and then transferred to Phoenix in 2017, according to the press release.

At the time of his death, he was part of the department’s Incident Response Unit, which he joined last September to help set up traffi c control, remove debris and assist stranded motorists on Phoenix-area freeways, the press release said.

“While the Arizona Department of Public Safety continues its investigation, this is a tragic reminder that drivers must stay alert around construction zones and always be prepared for the unexpected,” ADOT Director John Halikowski said in a statement. “Lives are on the line when dedicated highway workers like Frank Dorizio are making things better for all of us in work zones.”

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The department plans to display a message about the incident on its overhead message boards throughout the state over the weekend to call attention to drivers’ “need to stay alert around work zones,” the press release said.

A DPS spokesperson did not immediately respond to The Arizona Republic’s request for information Thursday.

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1911: President William Howard Taft ordered 20,000 troops to patrol the U.S.-Mexico border in response to the Mexican Revolution.

1912: Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen arrived in Hobart, Australia, where he dispatched telegrams announcing his success in leading the first expedition to the South Pole the previous December.

1926: The first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversations took place between New York and London.

1965: A march by civil rights demonstrators was violently broken up at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, by state troopers and a sheriff’s posse in what came to be known as “Bloody Sunday.”

1994: The U.S. Navy issued its first permanent orders assigning women to regular duty on a combat ship — in this case, the USS Eisenhower.

2019: Ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for tax and bank fraud related to his work advising Ukrainian politicians; a week later, another judge added 31⁄ 2 years to that sentence.

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the private employers that contracts inmate labor through Arizona Correctional Industries, a division of the Department of Corrections. The Arizona Republic learned of Price’s commissions while examining incentive pay for state employees.

Corrections ended the bonus program for inmates in August 2016, but Price’s earnings were never publicly revealed.

He wasn’t the only inmate getting sizable commissions. Another, serving a sentence for shoplifting and burglary, was paid $29,200 in 2015, while other inmates “made signifi cantly less,” Corrections spokesman Bill Lamoreaux said.

Corrections did not respond to The Republic’s request for records of all commissions paid to inmates working jobs through ACI. Lamoreaux said private employers provided the bonuses paid to inmates, and no tax dollars were used.

He did not explain why Corrections stopped allowing bonuses to be paid to inmates.

Records obtained by The Republic show state employees who oversee ACI have continued to receive large bonuses.

At least 52 Corrections employees associated with ACI received $384,221 in bonuses last year, averaging $7,389 — more than fi ve times the average incentive pay for 16,000 state employees who received bonuses in 2019, The Republic found.

Price was sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to one count of directing a criminal syndicate, one count of fraudulent schemes and one count of theft.

The Attorney General’s Offi ce, at the time, said Price had operated a telemarketing scheme that had at least 44 victims, including senior citizens. Prosecutors said Price and two co-defendants had posed as business consultants for a fi ctitious company off ering seniors the opportunity to invest in a website that would generate revenue.

Price admitted to using profi ts from the scam to pay his mortgage and other bills; purchase jewelry and electronics; and stay at resorts, prosecutors said.

By late 2012, after four years in prison, Price was transferred to a minimum-security prison in Tucson where he helped establish a telemarketing inmate sales force for Home Town Hero Project, which sells ads to promote veterans issues. He said inmates conducted telemarketing sales from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Price said he made commissions of $60,000 to $90,000 for several years. The commissions were on top of his hourly pay of a few dollars an hour.

“I did exceptionally well with telephone sales,” Price said.

Price said Corrections took a third of his earnings for room and board, and a portion of his earnings went to pay restitution.

Corrections says about $32,000 of Price’s earnings went to restitution.

Price said he sent money to his family, purchased food from the prison commissary and bought a TV for his cell.

Price said he lost his telemarketing job after correctional offi cers complained when he tried to send his wife nearly $9,000 one month in 2016. He said they took their complaints to then-Corrections Director Charles Ryan, who ended the inmate bonus program that summer.

Lamoreaux said the incentive program for inmates doing telemarketing work was discontinued Aug. 17, 2016, and all inmate fi nancial incentive programs were shuttered by Oct. 22, 2016. He did not give a reason why inmate bonus programs ended.

Ryan retired in 2019.

Price said Corrections, as a condition of his early release in 2017, made him sign an agreement that prohibited him from competing with ACI’s telemarketing company. (Many inmates are released after serving 85% of their sentences as part of Arizona’s “truth in sentencing” law.)

Lamoreaux said Price was directed not to work in any telemarketing capacity while on community supervision given the nature of his crimes.

Joe Watson, another former inmate who said he worked for Home Town Hero Project, said Price was “a legend” in the Tucson prison, and it was well-known among inmates how much he made.

“They were making good money, but I don’t think that’s possible anymore,” said Watson, who now works for American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker group that helps inmates.

Scott Balsiger, Home Town Hero Project chief executive, said he paid the inmate bonuses as a way to help inmates and prepare them to work after their release.

“We have a lot of success. We are able to pay guys a good wage, and provide career training,” Balsiger said.

“When they get out, they are able to do other things and have opportunities they would not otherwise.”

Reach the reporter at craig.harris@ arizonarepublic.com or 602-444-8478.

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BANGKOK – Crossing more borders, the new coronavirus hit a milestone Friday, infecting more than 100,000 people worldwide as it wove itself deeper into the daily lives of millions, infecting the powerful, the unprotected poor and the vast masses in between.

The virus, which has killed nearly 3,400 people, popped up in at least four new countries. It forced mosques in Iran and beyond to halt weekly Muslim prayers. It blocked pilgrims from Jesus’ birthplace in Bethlehem. And it upended Japan’s plans for the Olympic torch parade.

As markets dived anew, repercussions of the virus rattled livelihoods in the real economy, too.

“Who is going to feed their families?” asked Elias al-Arja, head of a hotel owners’ union in Bethlehem in the Israelioccupied West Bank, where tourists have been banned.

In Geneva, the U.N. health agency said it had received applications for 40 possible virus tests and had 20 vaccine candidates in development and reported that numerous clinical trials of experimental drugs for the new coronavirus were underway.

“We’re all in this together. We all have a role to play,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, chief of the World Health Organization, urging more global cooperation from the business world and solidarity with the poorest.

Twenty-one of the 46 people tested on the stranded Grand Princess cruise ship off the California coast were confi rmed to have the virus, the White House announced Friday.

Nineteen of the 21 were crew members.

More than 3,500 people remained on board the ship. Those on board may have been exposed to coronavirus after sailing with 62 passengers who had previously been on the ship’s Mexico voyage with a man who eventually died from the virus. Two other passengers from that voyage have been hospitalized with the virus in Northern California, offi cials said.

In other developments Friday: ❚ A second medical screener who checks travelers at Los Angeles International Airport has been confi rmed to have the virus, one of two new cases reported in Los Angeles County. ❚ The South by Southwest music, fi lm and technology conference in Austin, Texas, was canceled Friday – the most high-profi le event yet to fall victim to the coronavirus. SXSW, as it’s known, had vowed to go on. ❚ The U.S. death toll from the virus climbed to 14 Friday, with all but one victim in Washington state. The number of infections swelled to over 200, scattered across about half the states.

Pennsylvania, Indiana, Minnesota and Nebraska reported their fi rst cases.

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Firefi ghters disinfect a traditional shopping center to help prevent the spread of the new coronavirus in northern Tehran, Iran, Friday. EBRAHIM NOROOZI/AP

Yet even as COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, reached 90 countries, more than half of those who contracted the virus have now recovered.

And it’s retreating in China, where it fi rst emerged, and nearby South Korea.

Questions swirled around whether Iran could control its outbreak, as the number of reported infections jumped beyond 4,700 on Friday, with 124 deaths. Iran was setting up checkpoints to limit travel, urging people to stop using paper money and having fi refi ghters spray disinfectant on an 11-mile stretch of Tehran’s most famous avenue.

Meanwhile, the epidemic’s economic impact was snowballing. World stocks and the price of oil dropped sharply again Friday. A sharp drop in travel and a broader economic downturn linked to the outbreak threatened to hit already-

struggling communities for months to come.

The fear and the crackdowns that swept through China are now shifting westward, as workers in Europe and the U.S. stay home, authorities vigorously sanitize public places and consumers fl ock to stores for household staples. Nation after nation put some travel restrictions into place.

Thailand on Friday blocked a cruise ship from docking, worried because it carried dozens of passengers from Italy, which with 148 virus deaths is the center of Europe’s epidemic.

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ah, who is the country’s chief executive and was a top contender in last year’s presidential election, was among several prominent political offi cials who attended the ceremony but left before the attack.

Several TV journalists were covering the ceremony inside a walled compound when the gunmen began shooting. A reporter and a cameraman for a local broadcaster were among the wounded.

Karim Khalili, the chief of Afghanistan’s high peace council, was delivering a speech when the gunfi re interrupted him. He was not hurt and later went on TV to denounce the violence.

Several witnesses said that, amid the

panic, members of the security forces at the event had fi red on civilians in the crowd.

After opening fi re, the two gunmen holed up in a half-fi nished apartment building, leading to a fi ve-hour standoff with security forces. They were eventually killed and security forces cleared the building, Rahimi said. The area was cordoned off by dozens of security forces.

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the violence and reiterated “that attacks against civilians are unacceptable and those who carry out such crimes must be held accountable,” according to U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric.

“The United Nations stands with all Afghans in solidarity and remains committed to an Afghan-led peace process that will end the confl ict,” Dujarric said.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the deadliest attack in Kabul last year, when a suicide bomber killed 63 people and wounded 182 at a wedding. All were from the Shiite Hazara community.

Any U.S. troop pullout from Afghanistan would be tied in part to promises by the Taliban to fi ght terrorism and IS. During the withdrawal, the U.S. would retain the right to continue its counter-terrorism operations in the country.

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CHICAGO – Saying he would do more if he were in Congress today to support LGBTQ rights, Republican former Illinois U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock came out as gay Thursday in social media and web posts. In the postings on Instagram and a webpage, Schock, 38, described his anguish at being rejected by members of his deeply religious family after they learned last year he was gay. He lamented that he opposed gay marriage while representing his conservative district.

Schock resigned from Congress in 2015 amid scrutiny of his spending.

WASHINGTON – Like clockwork, daylight-saving time strikes again this weekend. Watch for it at 2 a.m. local time Sunday in most of the United States. Don’t forget to set your clocks an hour ahead, usually before bed Saturday night, to avoid being late for Sunday morning activities. With the annual change, sunlight will extend longer into the evening. No time change is observed in Hawaii, most of Arizona, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas.

Standard time returns Nov. 1.

KASTANIES, Greece – Clashes between Greek riot police and migrants attempting to cross the border from Turkey erupted anew Friday as European Union foreign ministers met to discuss the situation on the border and in Syria, where Turkish troops are fi ghting.

Greek riot-control police used tear gas and a water cannon to drive back people trying to cross the land border in the morning. Turkish police fi red volleys of tear gas back toward Greece. Thousands of refugees and other migrants have been trying to get into Greece.

SEOUL, South Korea – The United Nations’ top climate change offi cial says her agency won’t hold any physical meetings at its headquarters in Germany or elsewhere until the end of April due to the spread of the new coronavirus. Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, said Friday that the decision comes in response to the outbreak and “the evolving situation in Germany,” where more than 500 cases have now been confi rmed.

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KABUL, Afghanistan – Gunmen opened fi re Friday at a ceremony in Afghanistan’s capital attended by prominent political leaders, killing at least 32 people and wounding dozens more before the two attackers were slain by police, offi cials said.

The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on its website.

Militants from IS have declared war on Afghanistan’s Shiites, and many of those at the ceremony were from that Islamic minority. The ceremony commemorated the 1995 slaying of Abdul Ali Mazari, the leader of Afghanistan’s ethnic Hazaras, who are mostly Shiite Muslims.

The Taliban said they were not involved in the attack, which came less than a week after the U.S. and the group signed an ambitious peace deal that lays out a path for the withdrawal of American forces from the country.

Interior Ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said 32 people were killed and 81 wounded in the attack in the Dasht-eBarchi neighborhood of Kabul.

The Health Ministry gave the same death toll but said 58 were wounded. All of the casualties were civilians, Rahimi said.

Opposition leader Abdullah Abdull-

British soldiers patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Friday after gunmen attacked a ceremony for a minority Shiite leader. TAMANA SARWARY/AP

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MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A Birmingham man was executed Thursday evening on a 2005 conviction of being an accomplice to the murder of three police offi cers.

Nathaniel Woods, 43, was pronounced dead at 9:01 p.m. CT after an execution that lasted 15 minutes. He had no fi nal words.

Woods was put to death amid a storm of appeals and protests from supporters who noted that Woods did not actually kill offi cers Charles Bennett, Carlos “Curly” Owen and Harley Chisholm III on June 17, 2004, that Woods’ attorneys missed key deadlines in his appeals, and that the trigger man – also on death row – said Woods was not involved.

Woods visited with his family members Thursday afternoon, including his daughter and granddaughter.

Offi cers Bennett, Owen and Chisholm were shot and killed in a drug house on Birmingham’s west side on June 17, 2004. The shooter, Kerry Spencer, is on death row. An execution date for Spencer has not been set.

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What to do if you think you have virus symptoms Stephanie Innes Arizona Republic USA TODAY NETWORK

Are you worried you have the new coronavirus?

Having a fever, cough and shortness of breath is concerning, but health offi cials advise not to rush to the emergency room unless it’s a life-threatening situation.

Consider alternatives, like urgent care or a primary-care provider.

“Ideally we would like people to seek care in the most appropriate location.

We’d like to reserve emergency departments for people truly having an emergency,” said Dr. Michael White, chief medical offi cer for Valleywise Health in Phoenix.

“We recognize they may not have an established primary care physician, but

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are mild.

The symptoms can range from mild to severe, and they’re also similar to the fl u and other viral respiratory illnesses.

People who are elderly and/or people with underlying medical conditions are at highest risk of severe disease. Also at risk are people who have recently traveled to China, South Korea, Italy and Iran.

So far, children do not appear to be as impacted by the virus as they are by the fl u.

There’s a vaccine and known treatments for the fl u, but no vaccine and no proven treatments for new coronavirus, which is also known as COVID-19.

Patients who do end up going to a doctor’s offi ce or urgent care for a visit, make sure to call ahead so they can prepare for you, White said. Many local

clinics have protocol in place for people with potentially infectious illnesses, and they want to avoid exposing other patients at the facility.

The same is true for anyone who does go to the emergency room and is showing COVID-19 symptoms, White said.

Make sure to call ahead. You don’t want to spread illness to people in the waiting room, and you also don’t want to contract any illnesses from them either.

Emergency rooms see people with severe conditions and are often in immediate jeopardy due to heart attacks, strokes, and severe injuries.

“If you have severe trouble breathing or you feel really uncomfortable, yes, you should go to the ER,” White said.

“You should also let them know you are coming so they can be prepared to meet and screen you immediately.”

many people at all because she was vigilant about staying home when she was sick,” Sunenshine said.

“The very fi rst thing we do when we get a presumptive positive is we interview that case very, very closely. That typically takes one to two hours. ... We have a lot of other individuals to follow up with and we have the same intense conversation with them.”

The Pinal County woman’s case brings Arizona’s count of patients with the new coronavirus to three.

Two of the Arizona cases, including the latest patient, are “presumed positive” for COVID-19.

A presumptive positive test result means a patient has tested positive by the state’s public health health laboratory, but results are pending confi rmation by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The other presumed positive case, announced Tuesday, is a Maricopa County man in his 20s who is not hospitalized and is recovering at home, the Maricopa County Department of Public Health said.

Arizona’s fi rst case of coronavirus, a case that was confi rmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was announced Jan. 26. That patient, a man in his 20s who is part of the Arizona State University community, had been traveling in Wuhan, China. The patient was not seriously ill, and was in isolation in his home for more than three weeks. He has since tested negative for

the virus and is no longer in isolation.

The Arizona Department of Public Services as of Friday had tested 51 people for COVID-19, including the three cases identifi ed as either presumptive positive or confi rmed. The results of 15 tests are pending. Thirty-three people tested negative.

A vast majority of people who develop COVID-19 will have mild symptoms and completely recover at home without any treatment, Sunenshine said. Some people become more severely ill with COVID-19, particularly during the second week of illness, she said.

Symptoms usually appear within two to 14 days after exposure and consist of fever, cough, runny nose and diffi culty breathing. Evidence indicates that people are infectious to others only when they have symptoms, McIsaac said.

Older adults are at higher risk for complications, so they need to make sure they stay away from anyone who is sick.

The county health department is no longer recommending quarantine for health care workers exposed to the new coronavirus who are not showing symptoms, Sunenshine said.

“We ask our health care workers to continue to do what they do best, and that is treat their patients, and also to provide them accurate information,” Sunenshine said.

“Per CDC recommendations, we are no longer going to keep health care

workers home after they are exposed to COVID-19. We’re asking them to monitor themselves daily for fever and symptoms of the illness and stay home if those symptoms develop.”

As long as health care workers are not showing symptoms, they are needed in health care facilities, Sunenshine said.

“In general, we know that the public is concerned and that’s why we really want to make sure everyone understands that this should be treated like a bad fl u season,” Sunenshine said. “You all know how to prevent the fl u and you know how to prevent COVID-19.”

The state health department says the best way to prevent COVID-19 is to: ❚ Avoid close contact with people who are sick. ❚ Avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth. ❚ Stay home when you are sick. ❚ Clean and disinfect frequently touched objects and surfaces using a household spray. ❚ Wash your hands often with soap and water for 20 seconds. An alcoholbased hand sanitizer also can be used.

State health offi cials advise people who have traveled to an area where the virus is spreading and have developed symptoms within 14 days of travel to stay home and contact their health care provider.

For the latest information about COVID-19 in Arizona, go online to azhealth.gov/COVID19.

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woman had no connection to the two other infected patients in Arizona, public health offi cials confi rmed Friday.

Other information about the woman: She lives in Pinal County, works in Maricopa County and is in a Maricopa County hospital in stable condition, Pinal County Department of Public Health Director Dr. Shauna McIsaac told reporters on Friday.

She would not give any additional details about the patient’s condition, nor about the patient.

“We are treating this as the fi rst sign of community spread,” McIsaac said. “I understand that this sounds concerning. But it’s important that people know that public health is prepared for the spread of fl u-like illness every year.”

State and local public health offi cials have identifi ed close contacts of the woman who may have been exposed, Sunenshine said. Identifi ed individuals will be monitored for fever and respiratory symptoms.

Sunenshine and McIsaac would not say how many people had been identifi ed as close contacts of the woman who may have been exposed to the virus as they said the investigation continues.

Sunenshine said the woman stayed home when she was sick.

“This individual did not expose very

there are health providers at other venues that might be more appropriate than the ER.” Telemedicine, where patients are seen via their computer or smartphone, is also a good alternative to the emergency room for someone showing mild symptoms of COVID-19, Dr. Cara Christ, Arizona Department of Health Services director, told the Arizona Senate Health and Human Services Committee on Wednesday.

Keeping people who are not seriously ill out of emergency rooms will help protect Arizona’s health care system, she said.

“Most people would likely be fi ne at home, making sure they drink lots of liquids,” Christ said.

Citing data published from China, she said 81% of new coronavirus cases

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Active-duty troops sent to border Soldiers will support customs workers in El Paso and San Ysidro Rafael Carranza

Arizona Republic USA TODAY NETWORK

President Donald Trump’s administration will immediately deploy 160 active-duty soldiers to two key cities along the U.S.-Mexico border in response to a series of adverse federal court rulings limiting the implementation of his restrictive border enforcement policies, as well as growing concerns over the spread of the new coronavirus.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced Friday that it would deploy 80 active duty troops to San Diego’s San Ysidro border crossing and 80 more to El Paso’s Paso del Norte bridge as early as Saturday to provide “military police support, engineer, and aviation support” to customs offi cials at those two ports of entry.

The border agency’s announcement emphasized the role that a Feb. 28 ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco factored into their decision to deploy troops to those two cities.

A panel of judges blocked the U.S. government from sending asylum seekers to Mexico for the duration of their proceedings under the Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as “Remain in Mexico,” fi nding that the program was in violation of U.S. immigration laws.

In response, dozens of asylum seekers sent back under MPP congregated at border crossings from Tijuana to Brownsville, Texas, asking to be let into the country. CBP temporarily shut down at least one border crossing in El Paso to keep people from rushing the port of entry.

“CBP Ports of Entry (POEs) are not designed or equipped to handle ex-

Valley Metro heightens cleaning of buses, trains Mike Cruz

Arizona Republic USA TODAY NETWORK

Valley Metro is enhancing the cleaning regimen for its fl eet of buses, light rail and transit vehicles in the wake of the new coronavirus, according to a statement released Wednesday.

The agency said it uses a regularly scheduled cleaning process for its fl eet and public spaces.

But with the coronavirus, also known a COVID-19, the agency is going further.

“With the advent of COVID-19 in the U.S., we are enhancing the cleaning and disinfecting regimens on public transit,” according to the statement.

As part of its cleaning regimen, Valley Metro said high-touch areas, such as stanchions, hand rails, seat rails and fareboxes, on buses and the light rail fl eet are wiped down each day and disinfected several times a week.

Floors are vacuumed and mopped, seats are cleaned and walls are wiped down regularly.

At light rail stations, fare vending machines, handrails and water fountains, call boxes, seats and armrests are also cleaned daily and disinfected, the agency stated.

tremely large groups of travelers arriving all at the same time and temporary closure of a POE is contemplated as an extreme option, as necessary for public safety and border security. Compounded in response to Friday’s (Feb. 28) amassment of large groups in Mexico with the potential to forcibly enter the United States, CBP closed or partially suspended operations at multiple locations in order to maintain safety and security,” the agency said in a written statement.

The 160 troops are part of the Defense Department’s Crisis Response Force, which the Pentagon has made available to CBP since Trump initially deployed soldiers to the border in November 2018 in anticipation of the arrival of a large caravan at the U.S.-Mexico border.

A CBP spokesman said the deployment to San Diego and El Paso would begin Saturday and last for two weeks. The agency has the option, based on current needs, to extend the deployment and even “lift and shift” to other border crossings, he said.

The timing of the troops’ deployment is tied to an upcoming deadline that the 9th Circuit set this week. The federal judges presiding over the case allowed “Remain in Mexico” to

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continue, but only until March 11.

At that point, the court will block the program in Arizona and California — the states under its jurisdiction — unless the Supreme Court stays its ruling. To date, the Supreme Court has not intervened.

The U.S. government has sent back more than 60,000 people, mostly Central American migrants, to await their asylum proceedings in Mexico. The two border cities of Tijuana, located across from San Diego, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, across from El Paso, received the most returned migrants.

Top U.S. offi cials, including CBP’s Acting Commissioner Mark Morgan, have called the Migrant Protection Protocols a “game-changer” that has allowed them to reduce the fl ows of large numbers of Central Americans to the U.S.Mexico border.

Customs and Border Protection also cited the U.S. government’s “COVID-19 containment and

mitigation concerns” in its decision to deploy the military.

The agency said it faces a “delicate” balance in providing border security while facilitating legal trade and travel that last year topped $600 billion in goods and services between the U.S. and Mexico. More than 188 million people crossed the border, according to government fi gures.

Community groups and elected leaders along the border reacted with a mix of concern and outrage at the Trump’s administration’s response to the court’s rulings, as well as the use of coronavirus worries as justifi cation to deploy troops.

U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar, a freshman Democrat from El Paso, said in a written statement that the Trump administration is using COVID-19 as “an excuse to sow fear about asylum seekers in an eff ort to continue to violate the law.”

“While it is no surprise, it is nonetheless deeply disappointing

that the Trump administration would use the coronavirus as an excuse to sow fear about asylum seekers in an eff ort to continue to violate the law,” Escobar said. “It is because we are all concerned about the coronavirus that we need to focus our resources on our real challenges, like the limited number of tests available, something that troops on the border won’t address.”

Dylan Corbett, founding director of Hope Border Institute — a binational advocacy group in the El Paso-Juárez region — expressed concern over the deployment.

“There’s always a liability and risk when you send military to the border, knowing that you are sending them for a mission that they have not been trained,” he said.

Corbett added that it’s troubling that the government doesn’t have a clear, comprehensive plan for dealing with COVID-19, but recently decided to shut down the ports of entry instead of process-

ing migrants.

That’s a sentiment echoed by Vicki Gaubeca, the director for the San Diego-based Southern Border Communities Coalition, a collective of more than 60 community and advocacy organizations along the border.

“We don’t need more boots on the ground.

What we need are more trauma specialists, more medical professionals, more asylum offi cers,” she said.

Gaubeca called the situation “a crisis that is of the (Trump) administration’s own making” because it chose to implement an illegal program.

She and other advocates were anxious about whether the Supreme Court would step in and side with the Trump administration.

“We have volunteer groups in the communities where they’re going to be deploying the military who stand at the ready to receive these individuals,” she said. “So it’s not something the government has to do alone.”

USA TODAY Network reporters Eleanor Dearman and Maria Cortes Gonzalez contributed to this article from El Paso.

Have tips or ideas about the U.S.-Mexico border? Reach the reporter at rafael.carranza@ arizonarepublic.com, or follow him on Twitter at @RafaelCarranza.

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The elections department doesn’t track how many people use the accessible voting machines at polling places.

The federal Help America Vote Act requires places that conduct federal elections to provide at least one accessible voting system at each polling place. That system must have the same access and allow for privacy and independence, as other voters get.

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Offi ce conducted demonstrations of the new machines multiple times and sought feedback from people with disabilities, said Renaldo Fowler, senior staff advocate at the Arizona Center for Disability Law. The new machines, and increased training on how they work, should help alleviate issues voters with disabilities have faced at the polls in years past, Fowler said.

“That is my greatest hope,” Fowler said. “We put a lot of work into it with our election offi cials in Arizona. ... I think we’ve done the best we can with our election offi cials, given them the resources so that they can do their job. And that’s the only thing that we can do and just hope all the hard work pays out. I think it will, but that’s really the game plan.”

The old accessible voting machines were not as technologically advanced, but a major diff erence is in how voters can see the results of their votes, said Megan Gilbertson, communications director for the Maricopa County Elections Department. The results are now printed and fed into a tabulation machine, so voters can ensure their votes are counted, she said.

After a voter completes their ballot, the machine prints out a sheet of paper with a QR code that will be read by the same tabulation machine that counts votes from all other machines.

There also are large-print and Braille ballots available upon request from the county and other options designed to improve accessibility for voters with disabilities.

“We want to make sure that everybody is able to

Other accessible voting options

Erika Flores is the deputy director of communications of Maricopa County’s elections department.

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vote, so that includes people who have any type of disability,” said Erika Flores, deputy director of communications for the Maricopa County Elections Department.

So far, eight voters have requested Braille ballots for the presidential preference election, and 230 requested large-print. For the Tempe election, three requested Braille and 23 requested large-print, and for the Chandler election, 31 requested large-print.

Largest bonuses went to state employees overseeing work program for prisoners Craig Harris and Justin Price Arizona Republic USA TODAY NETWORK

The biggest bonuses awarded last year by state government went to a handful employees who oversee some of Arizona’s lowest-paid workers.

Seven employees of Arizona Correctional Industries, a prison work program, received bonuses ranging from $12,000 to $57,000, with the largest going to a sales representative for the operation.

Inmates who work in construction, egg harvesting and other jobs for ACI, meanwhile, are paid anywhere between $0.10 and $5.25 an hour.

Corrections spokesman Bill Lamoreaux said ACI employee bonuses are paid by the private employers who use ACI to hire inmates, not taxpayers.

Records show at least 52 Corrections employees associated with ACI received $384,221 in bonuses last year, averaging $7,389 — more than fi ve times the average incentive pay for the 16,000 state employees who received bonuses in 2019, The Arizona Republic

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ment’s second line-ofduty death.

The fi rst was in 1980, when Firefi ghter Ed Gaicki died fi ghting a fi re at a Tempe business.

Arriaga a ‘true hero’ A press conference regarding Arriaga’s death was held Friday afternoon at the department’s headquarters near Apache Boulevard and McClintock Drive.

Tempe Mayor Mark Mitchell began by asking the public to keep the Tempe community, fi re department and Arriaga’s family in their thoughts and prayers.

Fire Chief Greg Ruiz was emotional as he talked about Arriaga and the strength he displayed despite his circumstances.

“Tommy fought an extremely courageous battle with colorectal cancer and ‘til the end was ready to beat it, to not let it take him down,” Ruiz said.

He continued by saying Arriaga was “a true hero” to both his family and all Tempe fi rst responders.

Ruiz said he was the one who hired Arriaga, saying that Arriaga encapsulated the department’s motto to “live your interview” — meaning, to be as eager as you were when you hadn’t yet been hired.

“Tommy’s infectious attitude and smile made him a joy to work around,” Ruiz said. “He demonstrated immense pride in serving the citizens of Tempe and all surrounding communities.”

Ruiz referenced the recent award Arriaga received, saying that Arriaga wasn’t well enough to attend the banquet but that he recorded a video

message for the crowd.

In that message, he said that anyone battling cancer should keep fi ghting and “don’t ever roll over,” Ruiz said.

Arriaga also off ered fi nal words of advice for his fellow fi refi ghters, which focused on the dangers of exposure “It’s cool to be clean,” Ruiz said, recalling Arriaga’s advice. “Remember to do the following — properly decontaminate after fi res, wear your respiratory protection ... fi ll out your exposure forms and clean your turnouts.”

Ruiz said he hoped the department and all in the fi refi ghting profession would learn from Arriaga’s death to prevent future cases of cancer and death.

“We have faced a great deal of loss the past few years here in Tempe Fire Medical Rescue and as

the City of Tempe,” Ruiz said. “We have come together as a family following each loss, and their memories have made us stronger. We will do the same for Tommy. We will be Tommy strong.”

Arriaga’s captain: This is an epidemic Next to speak was Deputy Chief Kyle Carman, who was Arriaga’s captain throughout his career.

He said Arriaga liked to spend his spare time going to his daughter’s preschool or other places to teach children about fi re safety and what it was like to be a fi refi ghter.

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At least $21.5 million in bonuses were paid in 2019, according to documents obtained under the Arizona Public Records Law. Donna Hamm, executive director of Middle Ground Prison Reform, noted that most inmates who work for ACI must pay a third of their wages to Corrections for room and board.

“It’s essentially slave labor at those hourly wages,” she said.

Lamoreaux defended the pay, saying state law only requires ACI inmates to be paid $2 an hour, but inmates may earn more than double the minimum.

ACI has been a fi nancially self-supporting division of Corrections since 1991.

Some inmates work in ACI-owned and operated shops, with pay starting at $0.23 an hour.

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When asked what more could be done to prevent future deaths of fi refi ghters from work-related cancer, Carman described the issue as “something that’s become an epidemic.”

“There’s no simple answer,” he said. “I wish there was. All we can do is control the things that we know that we can to limit our exposure.”

He said he hopes fi refi ghters will heed Arriaga’s advice, saying that would be the best way of remembering their fallen colleague.

“That’s the way that we start doing this, is we honor people like Tommy and make sure that they don’t die in vain and carry out our promises to make sure that we can do whatever we can to prevent this from happening again,” Carman said.

Maricopa County also has curbside voting, where on Election Day a voter can pull up, get a ballot and vote in their car. Poll locations have a phone number posted on site where voters can call about the curbside option so they don’t need to go into the polling site at all, the elections department said.

In addition, a program called Special Election Boards assists voters who aren’t able to travel to the polls or do early voting. Two people from diff erent political parties travel to where a voter is located, deliver a ballot and assist the voter to cast it. The team typically serves people who live in nursing homes, are at hospitals or at assisted living facilities.

The deadline to request receiving Braille ballots or large-print ballots by mail has passed, but voters can still request that the elections department send a team out to bring them Braille or large-print ballots, Flores said. Voters also can view which accessible voting machines are used in each county on the Arizona Secretary of State’s website.

The Arizona Center for Disability Law runs a hotline for people to call about election concerns for people with disabilities at 602-274-6287 or 800-927-2260.

Reach reporter Rachel Leingang at 602-444-8157 or at rachel.leingang@gannett.com.

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Yet six weeks after we learned of his misconduct – at least, that’s what we schmoes who work outside the hallways of power would call it – came to light, Cook is still there at the state Capitol.

Oh, the House Ethics Committee has hired a lawyer to investigate Cook. (It’s the same guy who in 2019 investigated now-ex-Rep. David Stringer, though a diff erent one than the lawyer who investigated now-ex-Sen. Don Shooter in 2018.)

Meanwhile, the legislative session continues. The object of his aff ection is gone. And Cook?

Well, he’s still there, still making laws for the rest of us to follow.

Oh, I know. He’s an elected offi cial, and the rules are diff erent for public servants of such exalted status.

And besides that, it’s diffi cult to actually hold a state legislator accountable to a code of conduct when our leaders don’t actually have a code of conduct.

Reach columnist Laurie Roberts at laurie.roberts@ arizonarepublic.com.

Since 2009, at least nine Arizona fi refi ghters have died of cancer, according to the International Association of Fire Fighters.

Dozens more have been diagnosed, according to city claims.

Firefi ghters see a 9% increase in cancer diagnoses and a 14% increase in cancer-related deaths when compared with the general population, according to a study concluded in 2015 by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

Arriaga is survived by his wife, Monica, and two daughters, 7-year-old Miranda and 3-year-old Madalynn.

Details of Arriaga’s service were not immediately released, though the department said full honors will be extended.

Assistant Fire Chief

Andrea Glass said members of the public wishing to express their condolences to Arriaga’s family may mail cards or letters to the department’s administration offi ce at 1400 E. Apache Blvd. in Tempe.

Glass said they may also bring items, such as fl owers, to the department and lay them at the statue memorializing fallen fi refi ghters as a way of honoring Arriaga.

Republic reporters Jen Fifi eld and Mackenzie Shuman contributed to this article.

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