You honestly can’t make this stuff up.
Currently, Arizona is one of four states reporting record-high single-day increases in coronavirus cases. The surge is the highest rate going in the United States and it’s not even close. Here are some facts on how the pandemic has rocked Arizona courtesy of The Wall Street Journal.
Arizona is one of a number of states where Covid-19 infections have risen quickly recently. It reported more than 2,600 new cases Sunday, after setting new daily records multiple times in the last week. To date in this state of 7.2 million, there have been more than 52,000 confirmed Covid-19 cases and more than 1,300 deaths, according to state health department data. Eighty-five percent of the state’s intensive care beds are filled. On June 1, the figure was 75%.
Trump’s next stop will be Tuesday in Arizona where coronavirus cases have nearly doubled in 14 days.
In a Facebook post full of lies, leaders from the Dream City Church are claiming to have installed new technology that “kills 99% of coronavirus” through “ionization” within 10 minutes. Read that sentence again. The church’s CFO Brendon Zastrow and Pastor Luke Barnett are promoting the technology in the wake of the President’s visit.
The video is dangerous and pushes a false sense of protection with a miracle air purification system while lives are being lost and immensely damaged locally by Covid-19.
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