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Phoenix Hospitals Running Out of Morgue Space as Deaths Mount

COVID CRISIS

Maricopa County reportedly needs refrigerated trailers for the dead.

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Some Phoenix hospitals have reportedly run out of morgue beds amid Arizona’s worsening coronavirus crisis. News 12 reports that Abrazo hospitals’ morgues have reached capacity, and Maricopa County is in the process of procuring refrigerated trailers to house the dead. So far, there have been 116,892 reported cases of coronavirus in Arizona and 2,082 deaths.

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