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UArizona COVID-19 Modeling Team recommends three-week Arizona shutdown to avoid 'catastrophe'
The COVID-19 Modeling Team from the University of Arizona is recommending multiple sweeping measures and precautions in the state in order to limit the inevitable "hospital crisis" due to the pandemic.
"If action is not immediately taken, then it risks a catastrophe on a scale of the worst natural disaster the state has ever experienced," the team said in a letter obtained by 12 News. "It would be akin to facing a major forest fire without evacuation orders."
The letter was sent from the team to Steven Bailey, the Chief of the Bureau of Public Health Statistics at the Arizona Department of Health Services. It listed the recommendations including a three-week statewide shelter-in-place order.
The recommended order would last from Dec. 1 to Dec. 22, according to the letter, and would include the closures of indoor dining and bars.
"If action is not immediately taken, then it risks a catastrophe on a scale of the worst natural disaster the state has ever experienced," the team said in a letter obtained by 12 News. "It would be akin to facing a major forest fire without evacuation orders."
The letter was sent from the team to Steven Bailey, the Chief of the Bureau of Public Health Statistics at the Arizona Department of Health Services. It listed the recommendations including a three-week statewide shelter-in-place order.
The recommended order would last from Dec. 1 to Dec. 22, according to the letter, and would include the closures of indoor dining and bars.
https://www.12news.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/uarizona-covid-19-coronavirus-recommends-three-week-lockdown-avoid-catastrophe-hospital-needless-illness-and-deaths-mask-mandate/