AZ hospitalizations soar ahead of Phoenix rally

[struggle4progress]

BY SOO KIM ON 6/22/20 AT 12:58 PM EDT

... Around 1,992 hospitalizations among positive or suspected COVID-19 patients were reported on Sunday, the highest recorded since April 8, as of the latest report Monday from the ADHS.

Intensive care unit (ICU) beds used by positive or suspected COVID-19 patients were also at its highest since April 8, with 583 beds reported to be in use on Sunday, according to the latest report from the ADHS.

On Saturday, the state's ICU beds were at near full capacity, with 85 percent of beds reported to be in use, the highest percentage reported since March 26, according to the ADHS.

Arizona's daily case count of 2,500 on Sunday was five times higher than the 497 new cases reported May 16, when the state began reopening, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University ...

https://www.newsweek.com/arizona-covid-19-hospitalizations-soar-phoenix-trump-student-rally-1512574

If Arizona doesn't infect you, our campaign staff will!

[sop]

1. Every time Trump announces a future event, COVID-19 infections begin to soar.

He moved the RNC convention to Jacksonville and Florida's infections, hospitalizations and deaths skyrocketed, then the Tulsa debacle, now Arizona. Trump's visits have become a calamity.

[ThoughtCriminal]

2. There is an explanation

He wants to go to places where he has lots of followers. And his followers have been following his example of rejecting social distancing and masks.

[sop]

4. That's it, of course.

Still, Trump's political itinerary is eerily becoming a chicken-and-egg sort of phenomena, hard to figure out what's causing what. I prefer to think of Trump as the spawn of Satan, bringing death wherever he goes:

Habakkuk 3:5: "Before him went pestilence, and plague followed at his heels."

[Nevilledog]

5. People in my N. AZ town are acting like everything's good.

Very few wearing masks. No social distancing. Bunch of assholes.