page_title: Dream City Church
section_title: Trump Campaign Rally on June 23, 2020
hierarchical_section_title: Dream City Church / Trump Campaign Rally on June 23, 2020
caption_attribution_description: English: First building on Garfield and 3rd Street
context_page_description: Dream City Church is an Assemblies of God megachurch in Phoenix, Arizona. The weekly attendance is around 22,500. The senior pastor is Luke Barnett.
context_section_description: On June 12, 2020, Dream City Church announced they would rent to Turning Point Action for an event in Phoenix.  Turning Point Action subsequently revealed that President Trump would be an event speaker.  The Church's press release says the facility rental does not imply endorsement of the renters' opinions.
  In preparation for the Trump campaign rally, the church installed CleanAir EXP air-purification units that it said "kills 99.9% of COVID within ten minutes". Senior pastor Barnett said that "when you come into our auditorium, 99% of COVID is gone." The efficacy of this system had not been tested against COVID-19. Philip Tierno, a clinical professor of pathology at New York University, said that no system can protect someone against an infected person sneezing in the seat next to them. "When you are dealing with hundreds or thousands of people in an AUDITORIUM, some of whom will carry the virus you WILL NOT BE absolutely PROTECTED." According to Jeffrey Siegal, professor of civil engineering at the University of Toronto, "This thing is not going to do anything in terms of protecting people in that space." 
  On June 23, 2020, the church deleted the video, and it posted a message saying the system does not eliminate COVID-19, but it can eliminate other types of viruses. On June 26 2020 Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich sent cease-and-desist letters to the church and the air-purification firm (CleanAir EXP), demanding they stop making fraudulent statements about preventing COVID-19.
caption: Dream City Church construction
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