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Arizona deemed 'hot spot of the world' amid virus surge
By TERRY TANG age of oxygen and led
Associated Press ambulance crews to stop
PHOENIX (AP) — Five transporting patients they HOT
months after President can't revive in the field.
Donald Trump hailed Ari- Health officials in Arizo-
zona as a model for how na reported a triple-digit
it dealt with the COVID-19 number of new virus-relat-
pandemic, public health ed deaths for the second SPOT
experts warned Wednes- day in a row and more than
day that the state has be- 7,200 daily cases, with hos-
come "the hot spot of the pitals strained by a record
world" and that health re- number of patients.
strictions the governor has Arizona has the worst coro-
been hesitant to impose navirus diagnosis rate in
could have tamped down the country, with one out
the crisis. of every 119 people in the
"It's way worse than July state testing positive in the
already, and it's going to past week.
continue to get worse. Forceful measures like a
We're probably two weeks statewide mask mandate
behind LA in terms of our could help reduce cases
situation," Will Humble, down the road, but Hum-
head of the Arizona Pub- ble said he doubts Gov.
lic Health Association, said Doug Ducey will change
referring to Los Angeles anything. In this Dec. 8, 2020, file photo, vehicles line up as people wait for COVID-19 tests at a drive-thru
County, where a COVID-19 testing center in Phoenix.
surge has created a short- Continued on next page Associated Press