Health experts say that hospitals are expecting to reach capacity in the next couple of weeks and, at this point, nothing can be done to prevent it. Dr. Monica Kraft, a pulmonary physician at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and Banner – University Medical Center Tucson, paints a dire picture of what's going on in southern Arizona, where the Pima County Office of Emergency Management issued a public health advisory on Dec. 9 that hospitals have reached capacity.

As COVID-19 continues to spread in Arizona and elsewhere, applications to medical school are at an all-time high. The wave of new doctors and nurses isn’t stopping at a time when they’re needed most. Applications at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Phoenix are way up for a limited number of spots.

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Medical experts are urging Pima County residents to stay home after hospitals hit capacity Wednesday night. "If we don't intervene, quickly, then we will, in fact, overwhelm our hospital system. Right now that's the critical weakness is we may not have room, in the end, for everybody come Christmas Day," said Joe Gerald, an associate professor in the University of Arizona's Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.