PHOENIX Dec. 16 — The growing strain on Arizona hospitals caring for COVID-19 patients has prompted an urgent request for help from the federal government. The state Department of Health Services put in requests for medical staffing for at least seven rural hospitals, local news outlets reported Thursday. Hospitals in cities including Yuma, Douglas and Sierra Vista are in need of nurses for COVID-19 and emergency room patients, according to an official request form. Arizona's larger hospital chains have already sounded the alarm this week about being overwhelmed. Leaders of Phoenix-based Banner Health and Valleywise Health say the volume of patients is at its highest since the pandemic started. The rise in hospitalizations is due to COVID-19 as well as people who delayed treatment for other issues needing crucial care. Hospitalizations statewide were at 2,683 as of Wednesday, according to Arizona's coronavirus dashboard.
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! 🤬