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Arizona hospitals stretched thin by post-Thanksgiving COVID-19 surge


Just 7% of the state s hospital beds were available as of Friday morning. A refrigerated truck is being used as a makeshift morgue at Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix because of an accelerated pace of COVID-19 deaths.
Hospitals in Arizona face serious staffing shortages, and health officials and major medical groups are calling on Gov. Doug Ducey to take more aggressive action.
The current surge of COVID-19 is the greatest strain on Arizona hospitals statewide in recent history, said Ann-Marie Alameddin, president and CEO of the Arizona Hospital and Healthcare Association.
Dr. Marjorie Bessel, chief clinical officer for Banner Health, said, Nearly half of the patients currently being cared for in our hospitals are there because of a disease that did not even exist last year. ....

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