As the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Maricopa County climbed to new highs late this week, Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego appeared on MSNBC Friday morning for an interview with Chuck Todd and Katy Tur to discuss the situation in the state, which has moved to close bars, and rollback other reopening measures to combat the outbreak.
During the interview, Gallego claimed that the county's public health agency had just put in an order for refrigerated trucks because they were running out of space in the morgue.
"Maricopa County, which is our county public health agency, just announced that they're going to be getting refrigerated trucks because the Abrazo health care system has run out of morgue beds," Gallego said.
Hours later, as the mayor's comments started proliferating through the media, representatives for the hospital system called and complained that the mayor's comment wasn't true, despite the fact that she made the claim - seemingly with a high degree of certainty - on a popular cable new show.
Spokesman Keith Jones told azcentral.com that Abrazo hospitals have "adequate morgue space."
Here's the story: Phoenix and the rest of the state have been asked to implement their emergency plans to prepare for possible COVID-19 overloads.
Part of the plan, Jones said, was to proactively make sure there would be enough morgue space. So the hospital system ordered refrigerated storage weeks ago, but they have yet to be deployed.
"At this point, it is not needed," Jones said.
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9 comments:
Chuck Todd and Katy Turd bring out the best in people. Good thing the mayor didn’t lie to congress because that’s a federal offense lol. Where is our former good sheriff Joe when we need him. Sheriff Joe would have his convicts bury the bodies out on their farm. Sure miss the good man.
Busted!!!
Do you slaves see the pattern here??? The lying media??? Politicians lying?? About Covid-19, just like I keep telling you morons!!! But go ahead and give up your rights and livelihoods for nothing!!! That is what slaves do, and you are slaves so!!!!
PHOENIX MAYOR - simply another smelly, POS
Be nice here 124am. Katy Tur has a rockin bod.
Mayor read the script given.
It is all controlled by intelligence assets now.
We are merging into communism
8:41
Calm down please.
You are the commenter who cried exclamation point.
Work on a focused message.
Try not to alienate the audience by screaming at them and calling them names.
so why are the morgues full-just covid cases? What these folks were all homeless or have no families to claim their bodies and move them on to funeral homes for burial.
The narrative now is that states that reopened in the last 72 hours have had an uptick in covid-19 cases. I thought the incubation period took up to 14 days? So you mean to tell me that in 72 hours people went out in public, came in contact with an infected person, contracted the virus, started getting symptoms, went to the doctor and got tested, got their results back, and rushed them to the media so we could all be informed? Wake up America!!!!!
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