Lorraine Longhi

Mesa Public Schools announced last week that it would temporarily return to online classes in January COVID-19 continue to rise across the state.

The events would have brought nearly 4,000 teams to Phoenix in the upcoming months. A public health expert says she received threats Wednesday after she advised Phoenix officials to cancel several upcoming youth sports tournaments in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19. Dr. Saskia Popescu, an infectious disease epidemiologist and adjunct professor at the…