COVID-19 surge: Banner Health using refrigerated trucks to expand morgue capacity
Banner Health using refrigerated trucks to expand morgue capacity
An Arizona medical group is now using refrigerated trucks to store bodies as COVID-19 takes an increasingly deadly toll on our state.
PHOENIX - Healthcare officials are now saying the current surge of the coronavirus is starting to look worse than the summer surge.
Hospitals are filling to capacity with a spike in COVID-19 patients and at some locations, the morgues are full.
The situation at hospitals around the state is looking grim. In the past two weeks alone, ore than 500 people in Arizona have died of COVID-19. On Dec. 18, Banner Health officials announced they have brought in refrigerated trucks because their hospital morgue is full, and it needs to increase capacity for more bodies.
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