Arizona tells Pence it needs additional 500 health care workers as COVID-19 cases soar

[Nevilledog]

https://news.yahoo.com/arizona-tells-pence-it-needs-additional-500-healthcare-workers-as-covid-19-cases-soar-212413231.html


Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey told Vice President Mike Pence on Wednesday that the state needed an additional 500 health care workers as the number of cases of COVID-19 continues to set records there.

“We did hear in the briefing today of the need for personnel,” Pence said at a news conference following his meeting with Ducey.

“We’ve already responded with 62 medical personnel arrived this week in Tucson, but the governor conveyed to us an additional request of another 500 personnel and I’ve instructed the acting secretary of homeland security to move out immediately on providing the additional nurses and doctors and technical personnel.”

Pence said the federal government would be “moving out on that very quickly.”

On the day of Pence’s visit to the state, Arizona reported a record number of new cases in a single day (4,878) as well as a new record for deaths from COVID-19 in a 24-hour period (88).

While Arizona has, like other states across the country, increased testing in recent weeks, the percentage of positive results from those tests has been especially worrisome. On Wednesday, the state said that 28.3 percent of residents tested over the past 24 hours were positive for the disease caused by the coronavirus, the highest percent of any state in the nation.

[DBoon]

1. I wonder if all that Federally confiscated PPE will find its way to these red states?

the stuff that states like Massachusetts and Oregon ordered and never received months ago?

[soothsayer]

3. Or the fake "not for medical use" Chinese ones their buddies swindled them with

[lunasun]

4. ++ I was just sitting here in Illinois thinking the same thing .

[global1]

2. A Tough Decision For Pence To Make.....

1. keep his boss happy by not helping out and ignoring the situation saying not to worry - this virus will just magically disappear.

OR

2. provide the State with 500 additional medical personnel and make the unemployment numbers go down.


Hmmmm...... What to do? What to do?

[Buckeye_Democrat]

5. Those are Jared's doctors!

They're locked away in a Federal building somewhere.

[marble falls]

6. What's Mike Pence even capable of doing? Lay hands?

[denem]

7. 28.3% tests positive (!)

[Nevilledog]

8. Huge leap.

I got tested yesterday and hubby tested today. 5-7 days for results.

[uponit7771]

9. K&R, I knew it !!! 1500 ICU beds mean NOTHING when there's no one to to oversee them! They lie about

... EVERY LITTLE Freaking thing !!

[keithbvadu2]

10. As if Pence cares.