Phoenix Mayor Peddles Misinformation About Hospital Morgue Space To Pick Partisan Fight

Phoenix Mayor Peddles Misinformation About Hospital Morgue Space To Pick Partisan Fight

JULY 10, 2020 By Tristan Justice
Phoenix Democratic Mayor Kate Gallego charged Friday
that one major health care provider in her city
has been forced to order refrigerated trucks
because its hospitals have exhausted their morgue capacity

“Our county public health agency just announced
that they are going to be getting refrigerated trucks
because the Abrazo health care system has run out of morgue beds,”
Gallego said on MSNBC. “It is very scary out here.
I wish we had given mayors the authority to act earlier.”


Abrazo Health, however, later released a statement
contradicting the mayor’s claims,
clarifying that “hospitals currently
have adequate morgue space,”
and that its order for refrigerated trucks
came in response to the state requesting providers
to implement their emergency plans
which includes proactively preparing with backup resources.

Earlier this week, Gallego has also raised the alarm
that constituents have been waiting at testing sites
in more than 100 degree heat for upwards of eight hours
while claiming the federal government
has been of little help to Arizona
to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

Gallego neglected to mention however,
that most of the city’s testing sites offer drive-thru testing,
where individuals remain in their cars sheltered from the heat.
Phoenix City Councilmember Sal DiCiccio meanwhile,
has pushed back on the mayor’s assertions
of an absent federal presence
reporting that the Trump administration
has sent Phoenix $293 million in pandemic aid.

Tristan Justice is a staff writer at
The Federalist focusing on the 2020 presidential campaigns.
Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.
Photo MSNBC / Youtube


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