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Yavapai County (AZ) requests refrigerated (morgue) truck as state braces for more COVID cases
AZFAMILY.COM (Local CBS affiliate) ^ | 16 December 2021 | BRITTNI THOMASON

Posted on 12/16/2021 6:26:34 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo

PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) -- Hospitals are slammed across Arizona. The state is asking the federal government for help with staffing, and Yavapai County is so inundated, it's running out of room at its morgue.

Thursday, Yavapai County Community Health Services said it's requesting a refrigerated truck because so many people are dying from COVID. Their morgue is close to capacity, and they need to be prepared. In Maricopa County, public health leaders said it's not that bad here yet, although they are watching those numbers closely.

"January marks two years from the first COVID-19 case in Maricopa County," said Marcy Flanagan, Public Health Executive Director for Maricopa County.

COVID continues to be a huge problem in Arizona, and the county health department said we could not treat this virus like the flu.

"When you compare COVID-19 to the flu in Maricopa County, 7% of people reported with COVID are hospitalized compared with just one percent of people with the flu," said Flanagan.

With a lot of people planning to go out of town next week for Christmas, the county thinks COVID cases will keep climbing in the coming weeks.

"We are helping set up monoclonal antibody locations that are outside of the hospital systems, working with them, we're providing staff," said Flanagan. "We've also requested FEMA support to help staff those sites, and those should be opening soon."

Those treatments help the body's immune system fight COVID, and the county hopes it will keep patients from further packing into our emergency rooms. As Omicron spreads, doctors recommend masking up, getting vaccinated, and social distancing, even if you already caught the virus.

"With Omicron, we just don't have enough information to know how much protection having prior infection offers you," said Dr. Rebecca Sunenshine, Medical Director for Disease Control with Maricopa County. "We're still learning a lot more about Omicron."


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Reference; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: arizona; corona; covid; moronic; scamdemic; shamdemic; yavapai
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To: AmericanInTokyo

We’re finally getting a hospital in our small community outside Phoenix. However, the opening has been delayed due to supply chain issues that were exacerbated by the Biden administration as well as the Covid hysteria. Thanks, Joke™️, and all the morons who voted for him! 🤬


21 posted on 12/16/2021 6:58:29 PM PST by Prince of Space ( Let’s go, Brandon! )
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To: McGavin999

What university. Prescott College is about it. Oh btw as of May the vax rate was 15%. dk what it is today, but maybe still way low.


22 posted on 12/16/2021 7:00:05 PM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: mewzilla

So are you saying there were or were not a number of younger people
passing unexpectedly?


23 posted on 12/16/2021 7:01:15 PM PST by Chickensoup ( Leftists totalitarian fascists are eradicating conservatives)
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To: AmericanInTokyo
WAIT ..... WHAT ? .
24 posted on 12/16/2021 7:07:35 PM PST by knarf (?<p>Little kids grow up to be adults that get into powerful positions and act out their thoughts.<pg)
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To: hinckley buzzard

What university. Prescott College is about it. Oh btw as of May the vax rate was 15%. dk what it is today, but maybe still way low.


Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University is located here in Prescott. It has an enrollment of about 2500.

Statistics from the county: https://yavapaiaz.gov/chs/


25 posted on 12/16/2021 7:14:34 PM PST by chrisinoc
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To: hinckley buzzard

Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. I was just reading that Fentanyl is the biggest killer of18 to 45 year olds.


26 posted on 12/16/2021 7:20:28 PM PST by McGavin999 (To shut down the border tell the administration the cartel is smuggling Ivermectin )
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Living in Phoenix, I follow the Arizona Department of Health Services web site on their COVID report.

The “available” beds are indeed in limited supply, but the attached chart has always looked odd. First, notice that the number of ICU beds for adult COVID patients is actually less than the peak last January. But the total beds in use has continually climbed upwards and it does, indeed look like ICU bed capacity is nearing 100% as there are less than 4% left unused!

However, notice that even though the COVID usage of ICU has gone through several peaks, the total utilization grows even as a COVID surge tapers off. As the COVID usage drops off, something else is filling the ICU beds.

I haven’t been able to determine why the total utilization is not highly correlated to the COVID surges. This doesn’t make sense to me.

Anyone care to speculate?

https://www.azdhs.gov/covid19/data/index.php#hospital-bed-usage


27 posted on 12/16/2021 7:24:30 PM PST by the_Watchman
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Fear porn- and why not. Build back criminal bill is stalled. Inflation is out of control. They aren’t getting their National rigged election bill through. Biden’s numbers are in the toilet.

Yup, time to crank up the Covid Karen Army.

HOSPITALS ARE FLOODED!!! You know, like in Florida this summer where everyone was dying (except they weren’t).


28 posted on 12/16/2021 7:25:52 PM PST by FlipWilson
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To: McGavin999
Are you thinking NAU? It is in Flagstaff, which is in Coconino County.

I think both Prescott and Flagstaff have only one hospital. Haven't heard any of this on the news here in Phoenix.

29 posted on 12/16/2021 7:27:38 PM PST by GrannyAnn ( )
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To: AmericanInTokyo

So, are they dying from COVID or the Clot-Shot?


30 posted on 12/16/2021 7:37:55 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: GrannyAnn

I think both Prescott and Flagstaff have only one hospital. Haven’t heard any of this on the news here in Phoenix.


There’s two hospitals in the Quad Cities area, Yavapai West in Prescott and Yavapai East in Prescott Valley. They serve about 120,000 people in the area. I made sure there were two hospitals nearby before I moved here.


31 posted on 12/16/2021 7:40:26 PM PST by chrisinoc
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To: hinckley buzzard

It’s Damn Cold Here!
I’m in Prescott and
It’s been bellow Freezing,
For a week and it’s gonna stay cold thru next week.
Alot of “Old Folks” here
and for real Hospitals it’s
In Phoenix 90 miles south.


32 posted on 12/16/2021 7:45:20 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: McGavin999

NAU is in Coconino, not Yavapai. ASU is Maricopa. U of A is Pima.


33 posted on 12/16/2021 7:45:47 PM PST by Luke21
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To: Big Red Badger

More Wuhan my Butt!


34 posted on 12/16/2021 7:46:06 PM PST by Big Red Badger (Make His Paths Straight!)
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To: ealgeone

🤦👎


35 posted on 12/16/2021 7:57:56 PM PST by hawkaw
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To: AmericanInTokyo

The county is larger than three US states, yet has a population of only 236,000. They likely only have a morgue in the county seat, Prescott, and it likely has fewer than half a dozen bays. A large traffic accident can overwhelm them, as it does in several other AZ counties.

Bottom line: 8 Fentanyl casualties in the county in a year.


36 posted on 12/16/2021 8:00:43 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (META - Make Everything Trump Again)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Yeah we heard this very same crappola last year.


37 posted on 12/16/2021 8:13:42 PM PST by cld51860 (We’re doomed.)
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To: FlipWilson
HOSPITALS ARE FLOODED!!! You know, like in Florida this summer where everyone was dying (except they weren’t).

Except that they were. Florida incurred 10,353 COVID deaths in August 2021, the single worst months for such deaths in Florida since the pandemic began. For the month, the state saw 30,204 total (i.e., "all cause") deaths, which amounted to 184% of "expected deaths."

In September 2021, Florida incurred a further 8,281 COVID deaths, making September the second worst months for such deaths in the state since the pandemic began (i.e., with December 2020, at 5,015 COVID deaths, ranking third). The 26,982 "all cause" deaths the state experienced in September 2021 constituted 166% of "expected deaths" for the month.

The 10,353 COVID deaths Florida experienced in August 2021 constituted an increase of some 116% compared to August 2020. The 8,281 deaths in September 2021 constituted an increase of 309% compared to September 2020.

The notion that Florida's handling of the pandemic this past summer was without serious consequence is fantastical nonsense and is meant to communicate a political message, I would suppose.

38 posted on 12/16/2021 8:15:06 PM PST by DSH
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Want less overcrowding in morgues?
Stop killing people with Remdesiver and intubation.


39 posted on 12/16/2021 8:19:35 PM PST by A strike (Public Health 21st century murder by government. DoktorFauxiMengeleGates to a TerreHaute gurney now)
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To: DesertRhino
OH MY GOD... Refrigerated trucks. A bureaucrat found a way to spend money. Run for your lives...

Got to keep those taco fixins cold because invasion.

40 posted on 12/16/2021 8:34:55 PM PST by Stentor ( )
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